Gentleness

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient, — read the full passage →

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.

You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your gentleness has made me great.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn’t open his mouth.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, — read the full passage →

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

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

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. — read the full passage →

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

“Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. — read the full passage →

Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. — read the full passage →

“‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him. — read the full passage →

The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn’t know that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”

My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.

The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom.” All the people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom.

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street. — read the full passage →

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient, — read the full passage →

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Now the man Moses was very humble, above all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom. — read the full passage →

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows. — read the full passage →

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. — read the full passage →

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; — read the full passage →

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment; — read the full passage →

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. — read the full passage →

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; — read the full passage →

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. — read the full passage →

You will keep them, Yahweh. You will preserve them from this generation forever.

“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds;

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith. — read the full passage →

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.” — read the full passage →

For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. — read the full passage →

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.