James 3:15

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Summary

James 3:15

This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

Wisdom

Philippians 3:19

Devilish

General references

Galatians 5:15

Bible References

Wisdom

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally, and reproaches not; and it shall be given him.

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

For you are yet carnal: for while there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?

Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

Devilish

Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, has God said, you shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

And said, O full of all deceit and all mischief, you child of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his cunning, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

These are they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

And they had a king over them, who is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue he has the name Apollyon.

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, who deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

General references

For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within you.

Take heed therefore that the light which is in you be not darkness.

And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I store all my crops and my goods.

I have decided what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

But this people who know not the law are cursed.

Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.

But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another.