Question 310: In What Sense Is Meekness A Virtue?

Answer:

It is a comprehensive virtue. It includes gentleness, readiness to do good to all men, to walk humbly before YHVH and man and not to overrate ourselves; to be loving as well as lowly-minded, not given to worldly ambition, but zealous to yield willing obedience to YHVH's will; quiet, self-possessed, never quarrelsome nor disputatious. See Matthew 5:5; Matthew 11:29; 2 Corinthians 10:1; 1 Peter 3:4; 1 Corinthians 6:7; Romans 12:19; 1 Peter 2:19-22; Revelation 21:7. Thus the meek, though the "only rightful occupants of a foot of ground or a crust of bread here," are the heirs of all things hereafter.