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 truly pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him.

For you are yet carnal. For in that there is among you envyings and strife and divisions, are you not carnal, and do you not walk according to men?

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

Devilish

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said to the woman, Is it so that God has said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide 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 son of the Devil, full of all deceit and all craftiness, enemy of all righteousness, will you not stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?

But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, so your thoughts should be corrupted from the simplicity due to Christ.

He who practices sin is of the Devil, for the Devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed, that He might undo the works of the Devil.

These are those setting themselves apart, animal-like ones, not having the Spirit.

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

And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent called 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 brothers and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within you.

Therefore take heed that the light in you is not darkness.

And he said, I will do this. I will pull down my barns and build bigger ones, and I will store all my fruits and my goods there.

I know what I will do, so that when I am put out of the stewardship they may receive me into their houses.

But this crowd, not knowing the Law, is cursed.

because many of the Jews went away and believed on Jesus because of him.

But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you are not consumed by one another.