James 3:17

American Standard Version (1901)

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy.

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  • Jas 1:17 : 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.
  • Rom 12:9 : 9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
  • 1 Cor 2:6-7 : 6 We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought: 7 but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, [even] the [wisdom] that hath been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds unto our glory:
  • Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.
  • 1 John 3:3 : 3 And every one that hath this hope [set] on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
  • 1 Cor 13:4-7 : 4 Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; 6 rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; 7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:
  • Jas 2:4 : 4 do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
  • Jas 3:15 : 15 This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
  • Jas 4:8 : 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.
  • Titus 3:2 : 2 to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men.
  • Heb 12:11 : 11 All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, [even the fruit] of righteousness.
  • Heb 12:14 : 14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:
  • Col 1:10 : 10 to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
  • Isa 11:2-9 : 2 And the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah. 3 And his delight shall be in the fear of Jehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears; 4 but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. 5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins. 6 And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.
  • Luke 6:36 : 36 Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
  • Luke 21:15 : 15 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to withstand or to gainsay.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding.
  • Isa 32:15-17 : 15 until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest. 16 Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field. 17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence for ever.
  • Isa 40:11 : 11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, [and] will gently lead those that have their young.
  • Dan 1:17 : 17 Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
  • Mal 2:9 : 9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.
  • Mal 3:3 : 3 and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer unto Jehovah offerings in righteousness.
  • Matt 5:8 : 8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
  • Matt 23:28 : 28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
  • Prov 2:6 : 6 For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding:
  • Isa 2:4 : 4 And he will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
  • Isa 9:6-7 : 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this.
  • Gen 41:38-39 : 38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the spirit of God is? 39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath showed thee all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou:
  • Exod 36:2 : 2 And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Jehovah had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:
  • 1 Kgs 3:9 : 9 Give thy servant therefore an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this thy great people?
  • 1 Kgs 3:12 : 12 behold, I have done according to thy word: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there hath been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
  • 1 Kgs 3:28 : 28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.
  • 1 Chr 22:9 : 9 Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days:
  • 1 Chr 22:12 : 12 Only Jehovah give thee discretion and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel; that so thou mayest keep the law of Jehovah thy God.
  • Job 28:12 : 12 But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?
  • Job 28:23 : 23 God understandeth the way thereof, And he knoweth the place thereof.
  • John 1:14 : 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
  • Acts 9:36 : 36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.
  • Acts 11:24 : 24 for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.
  • Luke 12:1-2 : 1 In the mean time, when the many thousands of the multitude were gathered together, insomuch that they trod one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 But there is nothing covered up, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
  • Isa 32:6 : 6 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
  • Eph 5:9 : 9 (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
  • Phil 1:11 : 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
  • Phil 4:8 : 8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
  • 1 Cor 12:8 : 8 For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit:
  • Rom 12:18 : 18 If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all men.
  • Rom 15:14 : 14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
  • 1 Thess 2:7 : 7 But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:
  • 1 Tim 5:21 : 21 I charge [thee] in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
  • 2 Tim 2:24 : 24 And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,
  • Titus 1:15 : 15 To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
  • 2 Cor 9:10 : 10 And he that supplieth seed to the sower and bread for food, shall supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:
  • 2 Cor 10:1 : 1 Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you:
  • 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
  • 1 John 3:18 : 18 [ My] Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

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    2to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men.

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    22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

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    8Finally, [be] ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

    9not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

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    17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.

    18Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

    19Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

    20for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

    21Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

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    1Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

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    7and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love.

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    14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:

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    14Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.

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    17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.

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    27Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

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    8sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us.