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

Revelation 12:9

General references

Bible References

Wisdom

but wisdom deriv'd from heaven is first dispassionate, then pacific, equitable, and obsequious: full of beneficence, and all social virtue, free from partiality, and hypocrisy.

If any of you is deficient in prudence, let him ask it of God, who liberally gives to all without upbraiding: and he will give it.

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 still subject to your passions. since envy, and strife, and divisions are among you, are you not actuated by the vices of the animal part?

who in the. end will be ruin'd, who place their religion in sensuality, their glory in that which is their shame, and fix their thoughts upon this earth.

Devilish

you, who have the devil for your father, will execute the designs of your father: he was a murderer from the beginning, and deserted the truth, since he has no love for the truth: when he lyes, he speaks like himself: for he is a lyar, and the father of a lyar.

and said, "thou heap of imposture and mischief, offspring of the devil, and enemy to all justice, wilt thou not cease to pervers men from the right ways of the Lord?

but I fear lest by some means or other, as Eve was beguiled by the subtilly of the serpent, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is due to Christ.

he that lives in sin, imitates the devil; for the devil was a sinner from the beginning. for this purpose the son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

these are they who distinguish themselves, though they are sensual, and have nothing that is spiritual.

they had for their king the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek his name is Apollyon.

the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, call'd the devil or satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were precipitated with him.

General references

take care therefore, that the light which is in thee do not become darkness.

this will I do, said he, I will pull down my barns, and build greater: and there I will bestow all my rich product.

I must do something that will secure me a reception in other families, when I have lost my place in this.

but the populace, who are ignorant of the law, are such wretches.

because he was the occasion that many of the Jews left them, and believed on Jesus.

but if you bite and tear one another, take heed that you be not consumed by one another.