'Gentle' in the Bible

Happy are the gentle: for the earth will be their heritage.

See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.

Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;

Say to the daughter of Zion, See, your King comes to you, gentle and seated on an ass, and on a young ass.

When evil things are said about us we give gentle answers: we are made as the unclean things of the world, as that for which no one has any use, even till now.

What is your desire? is my coming to be with punishment, or is it to be in love and a gentle spirit?

Now I, Paul, myself make request to you by the quiet and gentle behaviour of Christ, I who am poor in spirit when with you, but who say what is in my mind to you without fear when I am away from you:

Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.

With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;

So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Let your gentle behaviour be clear to all men. The Lord is near.

As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;

Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:

But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:

Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;

But you, O man of God, keep yourself from these things, and go after righteousness, religion, faith, love, a quiet mind, gentle behaviour.

For it is not right for the Lord's servant to make trouble, but he is to be gentle to all, ready in teaching, putting up with wrong,

To say no evil of any man, not to be fighters, to give way to others, to be gentle in behaviour to all men.

Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.

But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.

Servants, take orders from your masters with all respect; not only if they are good and gentle, but even if they are bad-humoured.

But let them be those of the unseen man of the heart, the ever-shining ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the eyes of God.