James 3:17

The wisdom from above is pure, peace-loving, gentle, reasonable, merciful, fruitful, impartial, and sincere. Heavenly wisdom is marked by Christlike character.

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• Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• Prov 2:6For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
• 1 Cor 13:4–7Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
• Jas 3:15This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
• Rom 12:9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
• Jas 1:5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
• Jas 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
• Matt 5:8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
• 1 Cor 2:6–7We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
• 1 Jn 3:18My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
• Luke 21:15for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
• 1 Jn 3:3Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
• 2 Tim 2:24The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,
• Heb 12:14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
• Isa 32:15–17Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.
• Luke 6:36“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.
• Job 28:28To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”
• Col 1:10that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• 1 Chr 22:12May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.
• Rom 15:14I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.
• Jas 2:4haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
• Isa 11:2–9Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
• Heb 12:11All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
• Phil 4:8Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.
• 1 Cor 12:8For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
• 1 Tim 5:21I command you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
• 1 Pet 2:1Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
• Job 28:23“God understands its way, and he knows its place.
• Dan 1:17Now 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.
• John 1:14The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
• 1 Kgs 3:9Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”
• Mal 2:9“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
• Rom 12:18If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
• Titus 3:2to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.
• 1 Kgs 3:28All 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.
• Isa 32:6For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, To make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
• Acts 11:24For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.
• Matt 23:28Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
• Jas 4:8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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