James 3:15

World English Bible (2000)

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

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  • Jas 1:17 : 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
  • Jude 1:19 : 19 These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.
  • Jas 3:17 : 17 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.
  • 1 Tim 4:1 : 1 But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
  • 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
  • 2 Thess 2:9 : 9 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
  • 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles. 14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
  • Gen 3:1-5 : 1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'" 2 The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat, 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'" 4 The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die, 5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
  • 2 Sam 13:3 : 3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man.
  • 2 Sam 15:31 : 31 Someone told David, saying, "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom." David said, "Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness."
  • 2 Sam 16:23 : 23 The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 "For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 "His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
  • John 3:17 : 17 For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
  • John 8:44 : 44 You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
  • Acts 13:10 : 10 and said, "Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
  • Rom 1:22 : 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
  • 1 Cor 1:19-20 : 19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing." 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
  • 1 Cor 1:27 : 27 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;
  • 1 Cor 2:6-7 : 6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing. 7 But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
  • 1 John 3:8-9 : 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.
  • Rev 2:24 : 24 But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don't have this teaching, who don't know what some call 'the deep things of Satan,' to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.
  • Rev 9:11 : 11 They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is "Abaddon," but in Greek, he has the name "Apollyon."
  • Rev 12:9 : 9 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

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    16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

    17 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.

  • Jas 3:13-14
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    13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

    14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

  • 1 Cor 3:18-20
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    18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

    19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."

    20 And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless."

  • 1 John 2:15-16
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    15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

    16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

  • Jas 4:3-5
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    3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

    4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

    5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?

  • Jas 1:13-16
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    13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

    14 But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

    15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

    16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.

  • Jas 1:5
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    5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

  • 1 Cor 3:3
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    3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?

  • 1 Cor 2:6
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    6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.

  • Jas 4:1
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    1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

  • 1 Cor 2:13-14
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    13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

    14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

  • Jude 1:19
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    19 These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

  • Ps 36:3
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    3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

  • Mark 7:21-23
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    21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

    22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

    23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."

  • 1 Tim 6:4
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    4 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

  • Rom 1:29
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    29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

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    10 Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

  • Prov 19:3
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    3 The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

  • Jas 1:20
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    20 for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.

  • Jude 1:10
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    10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things.

  • Jas 4:16
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    16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

  • Prov 11:2
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    2 When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

  • John 3:31
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    31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

  • Prov 14:33
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    33 Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.

  • Matt 15:19
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    19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

  • Eph 5:6
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    6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

  • 1 John 3:10
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    10 In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

  • Jas 3:10
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    10 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

  • Rom 3:14
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    14 "whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."

  • 1 Cor 15:47
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    47 The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

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    1 An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

  • Job 28:20
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    20 Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?

  • 1 Cor 1:20
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    20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

  • Prov 18:3
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    3 When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with shame comes disgrace.

  • Prov 3:7
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    7 Don't be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

  • Titus 3:3
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    3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

  • Gal 5:19
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    19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,