James 3:17

The Wisdom That Comes Down From Above

¹⁶ For wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there will be confusion and every low action. ¹⁷ The wisdom that is from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, considerate, willing to yield, full of compassion and good deeds, whole-hearted, straightforward. ¹⁸ The harvest uprightness yields must be sown in peace, by peacemakers.

Good Deeds

Good Works

Shows No Partiality

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Romans 12:9

Your love must be genuine. You must hate what is wrong, and hold to what is right.

James 2:4

have you not wavered and shown that your judgments are guided by base motives?

Luke 6:36

You must be merciful, just as your Father is.

1 Corinthians 2:6-7

Yet there is a wisdom that we impart when we are with people who have a mature faith, but it is not what this world calls wisdom, nor what the authorities of this world, doomed as they are to pass away, would call so.

Titus 3:2

to abuse nobody, to be peaceable and reasonable, showing perfect gentleness to everyone.

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect present is from heaven, and comes down from the Father of the heavenly lights, about whom there is no variation of changing shadow.

James 4:8

Approach God, and he will approach you. Wash your hands, you sinners! Make your hearts pure, you doubters!

Matthew 5:8

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God!

Matthew 23:28

So you outwardly appear to men to be upright, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Luke 12:1-2

Meanwhile as the people gathered in thousands, until they actually trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, hypocrisy.

Luke 21:15

for I will give you such wisdom of utterance as none of your opponents will be able to resist or dispute.

John 1:14

So the Word became flesh and blood and lived for a while among us, abounding in blessing and truth, and we saw the honor God had given him, such honor as an only son receives from his father.

Acts 9:36

Among the disciples at Joppa there was a woman named Tabitha, which is in Greek Dorcas, that is, gazelle. She had devoted herself to doing good and to acts of charity.

Acts 11:24

for he was an excellent man, full of the holy Spirit and faith. So a considerable number of people came over to the Lord.

Romans 12:18

If possible, for your part, live peaceably with everybody.

Romans 15:14

For my part, as far as you are concerned, my brothers, I am convinced that you are already full of goodness of heart, endowed with perfect knowledge, and well qualified to instruct one another.

1 Corinthians 12:8

One man receives through the Spirit the power to speak wisely, another, by the same Spirit, receives the power to express knowledge,

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Love is patient and kind. Love is not envious or boastful. It does not put on airs.

2 Corinthians 9:10

He who supplies the sower with seed and so with bread to eat will supply you with seed, and multiply it and enlarge the harvest of your uprightness.

2 Corinthians 10:1

I appeal to you personally, by the gentleness and forbearance of Christ??he Paul who is so humble when face to face with you, but so bold in dealing with you when he is far away!

Galatians 5:22-23

But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Ephesians 5:9

for light leads to perfect goodness, uprightness, and truth;

Philippians 1:11

with your lives filled with the fruits which uprightness produces through Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.

Philippians 4:8

Now, brothers, let your minds dwell on what is true, what is worthy, what is right, what is pure, what is amiable, what is kindly??n everything that is excellent or praiseworthy.

Colossians 1:10

so that the lives you live may be worthy of your Master and wholly pleasing to him, and you may be fruitful in all kinds of good deeds, and may grow into fuller knowledge of God.

1 Thessalonians 2:7

We were children when we were with you; we were like a mother nursing her children.

1 Timothy 5:21

I charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the chosen angels to observe these rules without any discrimination, and to be perfectly impartial.

2 Timothy 2:24

and a slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but treat everyone kindly; he must be persuasive and unresentful,

Titus 1:15

To the pure everything is pure, but to the evil-minded and unbelieving nothing is pure, but their very minds and consciences are unclean.

Hebrews 12:11

Discipline is never pleasant at the time; it is painful; but to those who are trained by it, it afterward yields the peace of character.

Hebrews 12:14

Try to be at peace with everyone, and strive for that consecration without which no one can see the Lord.

James 1:5

If any one of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask God who gives generously to everyone, and does not reproach one with it afterward, and he will give it to him.

James 3:15

Such wisdom does not come from above. It is earthly, animal, demon-like.

1 Peter 1:22

Now that by obeying the truth you have purified your souls for sincere love of the brotherhood, you must love one another intensely and heartily,

1 Peter 2:1

Free yourselves, therefore, from all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of any kind,

1 John 3:3

And everyone who possesses this hope in him tries to make himself as pure as he is.

1 John 3:18

Dear children, let us love not with words or lips only but in reality and truth.