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 the wisdom which comes from on high is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, conciliatory, overflowing with mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without insincerity.

If any one of you is lacking in wisdom, let him ask it from the God who gives to all men freely and without upbraiding; and it will be given to him.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.

You are not able even now, for you are still unspiritual. While there is among you jealousy and strife, are you not still unspiritual, and behaving like worldlings?

Their end is destruction, their belly is their god, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are set on earthly things.

Devilish

"You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

"O full of all craft and cunning, you son of the devil! You enemy of all goodness! Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?

But I fear lest, just as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, so your minds should be seduced from your single-mindedness and purity toward Christ.

He who is committing sin is of the devil, because from the beginning of the devil is sinning. It was for this cause that the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

These are the men, sensual and unspiritual, who cause divisions.

They have a king over them, the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon; in Greek he is called Apollyon.

Now the great dragon was thrown down??hat 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.

General references

"Look carefully! Perhaps that very light of yours is darkness.

"And he said to himself. 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns and build larger ones in which I will store all my wheat and my goods.

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

"As for this mob who do not understand the Law, they are accursed!"

because it was on his account that many of the Jews were leaving them, and beginning to believe on Jesus.

But if you are always biting and devouring one another, take heed lest you be utterly consumed one by another.