Nine Secrets of Healthy Relationships: Gentleness Lesson 9

Date
September 10, 2023
Speaker
C. William Roberts, Pastor
Series
Nine Secrets of Healthy Relationships

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Galatians 5:22-23 (KJV)

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
²³Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Matthew 18:4 (KJV)

⁴Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 23:11-12 (KJV)

¹¹But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
¹²And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Luke 9:41 (NLT)

⁴¹Jesus said, “You faithless and corrupt people! How long must I be with you and put up with you?” Then he said to the man, “Bring your son here.”

Ephesians 3:20 (KJV)

²⁰Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

John 15:4 (KJV)

⁴Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

Philippians 2:4-8 (KJV)

⁴Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
⁵Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
⁶Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
⁷But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
⁸And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

2 Peter 1:6-7 (KJV)

⁶And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
⁷And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

James 3:16 (KJV)

¹⁶For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

James 3:6-8 (KJV)

⁶And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
⁷For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
⁸But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Luke 6:45 (KJV)

⁴⁵A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

Proverbs 15:4 (KJV)

⁴A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

Ephesians 4:29 (KJV)

²⁹Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Ephesians 4:2 (KJV)

²With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Proverbs 16:32 (KJV)

³²He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

James 1:21 (KJV)

²¹Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

1 Peter 3:4 (KJV)

⁴But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

Psalm 34:18 (KJV)

¹⁸The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

James 4:6 (KJV)

⁶But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.