James 3:17

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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.

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  • Jas 1:17 : 17 Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.
  • Rom 12:9 : 9 Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.
  • 1 Cor 2:6-7 : 6 But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing: 7 But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory;
  • Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith, 23 Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.
  • 1 John 3:3 : 3 And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.
  • 1 Cor 13:4-7 : 4 Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride; 5 Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil; 6 It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true; 7 Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:
  • Jas 2:4 : 4 Is there not a division in your minds? have you not become judges with evil thoughts?
  • Jas 3:15 : 15 This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.
  • Jas 4:8 : 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.
  • Titus 3:2 : 2 To say no evil of any man, not to be fighters, to give way to others, to be gentle in behaviour to all men.
  • Heb 12:11 : 11 At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.
  • Heb 12:14 : 14 Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;
  • Col 1:10 : 10 Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
  • Isa 11:2-9 : 2 And the spirit of the Lord will be resting on him, the spirit of wisdom and good sense, the spirit of wise guiding and strength, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; 3 And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears: 4 But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer. 5 And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast. 6 And the wolf will be living with the lamb, and the leopard will take his rest with the young goat; and the lion will take grass for food like the ox; and the young lion will go with the young ones of the herd; and a little child will be their guide. 7 And the cow and the bear will be friends while their young ones are sleeping together. 8 And the child at the breast will be playing by the hole of the snake, and the older child will put his hand on the bright eye of the poison-snake. 9 There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain: for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.
  • Luke 6:36 : 36 Be full of pity, even as your Father is full of pity.
  • Luke 21:15 : 15 For I will give you words and wisdom, so that not one of those who are against you will be able to get the better of you, or to put you in the wrong.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.
  • Isa 32:15-17 : 15 Till the spirit comes on us from on high, and the waste land becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field is changed into a wood. 16 Then in the waste land there will be an upright rule, and righteousness will have its place in the fertile field. 17 And the work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of an upright rule will be to take away fear for ever.
  • Isa 40:11 : 11 He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.
  • Dan 1:17 : 17 Now as for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and made them expert in all book-learning and wisdom: and Daniel was wise in all visions and dreams.
  • Mal 2:9 : 9 And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.
  • Mal 3:3 : 3 He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.
  • Matt 5:8 : 8 Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God.
  • Matt 23:28 : 28 Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.
  • Prov 2:6 : 6 For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:
  • Isa 2:4 : 4 And he will be the judge between the nations, and the peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for ever.
  • Isa 9:6-7 : 6 For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
  • Gen 41:38-39 : 38 Then Pharaoh said to his servants, Where may we get such a man as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God? 39 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Seeing that God has made all this clear to you, there is no other man of such wisdom and good sense as you:
  • Exod 36:2 : 2 Then Moses sent for Bezalel and Oholiab, and for all the wise-hearted men to whom the Lord had given wisdom, even everyone who was moved by the impulse of his heart to come and take part in the work:
  • 1 Kgs 3:9 : 9 Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?
  • 1 Kgs 3:12 : 12 I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.
  • 1 Kgs 3:28 : 28 And news of this decision which the king had made went through all Israel; and they had fear of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to give decisions.
  • 1 Chr 22:9 : 9 But you will have a son who will be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from wars on every side. His name will be Solomon, and in his time I will give Israel peace and quiet;
  • 1 Chr 22:12 : 12 Only may the Lord give you wisdom, and knowledge of his orders for Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.
  • Job 28:12 : 12 But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?
  • Job 28:23 : 23 God has knowledge of the way to it, and of its resting-place;
  • John 1:14 : 14 And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory--such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be true and full of grace.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.
  • Acts 9:36 : 36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, that is, Dorcas: this woman was given to good works and acts of mercy at all times.
  • Acts 11:24 : 24 For he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith: and a great number were joined to the Lord.
  • Luke 12:1-2 : 1 At that time, when thousands of the people had come together, in such numbers that they were crushing one another, he said first to his disciples, Have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees, which is deceit. 2 But nothing is covered up, which will not come to light, or secret, which will not be made clear.
  • Isa 32:6 : 6 For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.
  • Eph 5:9 : 9 (Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),
  • Phil 1:11 : 11 Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
  • Phil 4:8 : 8 For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.
  • 1 Cor 12:8 : 8 For to one are given words of wisdom through the Spirit; and to another words of knowledge through the same Spirit:
  • Rom 12:18 : 18 As far as it is possible for you be at peace with all men.
  • Rom 15:14 : 14 And I myself am certain of you, brothers, that you are full of what is good, complete in all knowledge, able to give direction to one another.
  • 1 Thess 2:7 : 7 But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:
  • 1 Tim 5:21 : 21 I give you orders before God and Christ Jesus and the angels of God's selection, to keep these orders without giving thought to one side more than another.
  • 2 Tim 2:24 : 24 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,
  • Titus 1:15 : 15 To the clean in heart all things are clean: but to those who are unclean and without faith nothing is clean; they become unclean in mind and in thought.
  • 2 Cor 9:10 : 10 And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;
  • 2 Cor 10:1 : 1 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:
  • 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,
  • 1 John 3:18 : 18 My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.

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  • Jas 3:18
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    18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.

  • Jas 3:13-16
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    13 Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.

    14 But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

    15 This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.

    16 For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

  • Jas 1:4-5
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    4 But let this power have its full effect, so that you may be made complete, needing nothing.

    5 But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.

  • Titus 3:2-3
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    2 To say no evil of any man, not to be fighters, to give way to others, to be gentle in behaviour to all men.

    3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

  • Gal 5:22-23
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    22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

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

  • 1 Pet 3:8-9
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    8 Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride:

    9 Not giving back evil for evil, or curse for curse, but in place of cursing, blessing; because this is the purpose of God for you that you may have a heritage of blessing.

  • Eph 5:9
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    9 (Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),

  • Jas 1:17-21
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    17 Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.

    18 Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

    19 You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

    20 For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.

    21 For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.

  • Prov 1:3
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    3 To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:

  • 1 Pet 2:1-2
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    1 So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

    2 Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

  • Prov 15:1
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    1 By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.

  • 2 Pet 1:7
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    7 And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

  • Heb 12:14
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    14 Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;

  • 2 Pet 3:14
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    14 For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.

  • Prov 3:17
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    17 Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

  • Phil 2:15
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    15 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,

  • Jas 1:27
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    27 The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.

  • Prov 3:4
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    4 So you will have grace and a good name in the eyes of God and men.

  • Matt 7:17
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    17 Even so, every good tree gives good fruit; but the bad tree gives evil fruit.

  • Phil 1:10-11
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    10 So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;

    11 Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

  • 1 Pet 3:3-4
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    3 Do not let your ornaments be those of the body such as dressing of the hair, or putting on of jewels of gold or fair clothing;

    4 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.

  • Col 4:5
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    5 Be wise in your behaviour to those who are outside, making good use of the time.

  • Eph 4:31
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    31 Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;

  • 2 Cor 6:6
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    6 In a clean heart, in knowledge, in long waiting, in being kind, in the Holy Spirit, in true love,

  • Prov 11:30
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    30 The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, but violent behaviour takes away souls.

  • 1 Tim 3:3
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    3 Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;

  • Prov 3:13
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    13 Happy is the man who makes discovery of wisdom, and he who gets knowledge.

  • Phil 2:3
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    3 Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;

  • Jas 2:13
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    13 For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.

  • Prov 2:10
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    10 For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;

  • 1 Cor 3:19
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    19 For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:

  • Prov 14:33
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    33 Wisdom has her resting-place in the mind of the wise, but she is not seen among the foolish.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22 And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

  • Prov 13:10
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    10 The only effect of pride is fighting; but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.

  • 1 Tim 1:5
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    5 But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:

  • Titus 2:8
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    8 Saying true and right words, against which no protest may be made, so that he who is not on our side may be put to shame, unable to say any evil of us.