James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is pure, and full of peace, and meekness, and obedience, and full of mercies and good fruits, and is without division, and faces accepteth not.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
16For where there are envy and contention, there also are tumult and every thing that is evil.
18But the fruits of righteousness in quietness are sown by them who make peace.
Matthew Henry on James 3:14-18
Properties of Wisdom. ( a. d. 61.) 13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be… Read the whole commentary →