Bible verses about "gentleness" | ABU

1 Corinthians 13:4-5

4 Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up, 5 does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not its own, is not easily provoked, imputes no evil;

Ephesians 4:2

2 with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;

James 1:19-20

19 So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; 20 for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.

Galatians 5:22

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

Matthew 11:29

29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest for your souls.

Galatians 5:22-23

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 meekness, temperance; against such things there is no law.

Galatians 6:1

1 BRETHREN, even if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

James 3:17

17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, forbearing, easily persuaded, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

2 Timothy 2:24-26

24 And a servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle toward all, apt in teaching, patient of evil; 25 in meekness admonishing those who oppose themselves; if haply God may give them repentance unto the full knowledge of the truth; 26 and that they may awake to soberness out of the snare of the Devil, being taken captive by him, to do his will.

1 Peter 3:15

15 but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts; ready always to give an answer to every one that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

Titus 3:2

2 to speak evil of no one, to be averse to strife, forbearing, showing all meekness to all men.

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