James 3:17
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17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.(A)
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Galatians 5:22-23
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The Fruit of the Spirit
22 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,(A) 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
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Proverbs 2:6
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6 For the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;(A)
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
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4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant(A) 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs;(B) 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth.(C) 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.(D)
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James 3:15
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15 This is not wisdom that comes down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish.(A)
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Romans 12:9
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Marks of the True Christian
9 Let love be genuine; hate what is evil; hold fast to what is good;
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James 1:17
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17 Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.[a](A)
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- 1.17 Other ancient authorities read variation due to a shadow of turning
James 1:5
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5 If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you.(A)
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1 Corinthians 2:6-7
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The True Wisdom of God
6 Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are being destroyed.(A) 7 But we speak God’s wisdom, a hidden mystery, which God decreed before the ages for our glory
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1 John 3:18
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18 Little children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.(A)
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1 Peter 1:22
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22 Now that you have purified your souls[a] by your obedience to the truth[b] so that you have genuine mutual affection, love one another deeply from the heart.[c](A)
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Luke 21:15
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15 for I will give you words[a] and a wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to withstand or contradict.(A)
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- 21.15 Gk a mouth
Matthew 5:8
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8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.(A)
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1 John 3:3
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3 And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
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James 2:4
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4 have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
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Isaiah 32:15-17
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15 until a spirit from on high is poured out on us,
and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.(A)
The Peace of God’s Reign
16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness
and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.(B)
17 The effect of righteousness will be peace,
and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.(C)
Hebrews 12:14
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Warnings against Rejecting God’s Grace
14 Pursue peace with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
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Luke 6:36
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36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
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2 Timothy 2:24
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24 And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kindly to everyone, an apt teacher, patient,(A)
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1 Peter 2:1
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The Living Stone and a Chosen People
2 Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander.(A)
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Hebrews 12:11
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11 Now, discipline always seems painful rather than pleasant at the time, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.(A)
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Colossians 1:10
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10 so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, as you bear fruit in every good work and as you grow in the knowledge of God.(A)
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Job 28:28
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28 And he said to humankind,
‘Truly, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;
and to depart from evil is understanding.’ ”(A)
Romans 15:14
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Paul’s Reason for Writing So Boldly
14 I myself feel confident about you, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.(A)
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Isaiah 11:2-9
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2 The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him,
the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.(A)
3 His delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.
He shall not judge by what his eyes see
or decide by what his ears hear,(B)
4 but with righteousness he shall judge for the poor
and decide with equity for the oppressed of the earth;
he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.(C)
5 Righteousness shall be the belt around his waist
and faithfulness the belt around his loins.(D)
6 The wolf shall live with the lamb;
the leopard shall lie down with the kid;
the calf and the lion will feed[a] together,
and a little child shall lead them.
7 The cow and the bear shall graze;
their young shall lie down together;
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp,
and the weaned child shall put its hand on the adder’s den.
9 They will not hurt or destroy
on all my holy mountain,
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.(E)
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- 11.6 Q ms Gk Syr: MT and the fatted calf
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