James 3:15

The Wisdom That Comes Down From Above

¹⁴ But if you have bitter envy and strife in your heart, do not boast, and lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but it is earthly, intellectual, and demoniacal. ¹⁶ For where there are envy and strife, there are contention and every evil work.

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James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of change.

Jude 1:19

These are they who are sidetracking [the people], intellectual, not having the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and purity of God, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have sojourned in the world, and especially towards you.

1 Timothy 4:1

But the Spirit says positively, that in the last times certain ones will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and to the teachings of demons,

Luke 16:8

And the lord praised the steward of unrighteousness because he acted shrewdly: because the sons of this age are wiser in their generation than the sons of the light.

John 3:17

For God sent not His Son into the world that He may condemn the world; but that the world through Him may be saved.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and you wish to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, because there was no truth in him. When he may speak a lie, he speaks of his own: because he is a liar, and the father of the same.

Acts 13:10

said, O thou full of all guile and rascality, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of God?

Romans 1:22

Saying that they were wise, they became fools,

1 Corinthians 1:19-20

For it has been written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nought the understanding of the intelligent.

1 Corinthians 1:27

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world, that he may confound the strong;

1 Corinthians 2:6-7

But we speak wisdom among the perfect: not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nought:

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the intellectual man receives not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for ye are yet carnal. For where there are envy and strife among you, are you not carnal, and walking about according to man?

2 Corinthians 11:3

but I fear, lest, as the serpent beguiled Eve by his craftiness, your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

Philippians 3:19

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

2 Thessalonians 2:9

whose coming is according to the energy of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,

James 1:5

But if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all cheerfully and upbraids none; and it will be given unto him.

James 3:17

But the wisdom which is from above is indeed first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily persuaded, full of mercy and of good works, free from partiality and hypocrisy.

1 John 3:8-10

The one doing sin is of the devil; because the devil sins from the beginning. Unto this the Son of God was made manifest, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Revelation 2:24

But I say to you, the rest who are among the Thyatireans, so many as have not this teaching, whosoever have not known the depth of Satan, as they say; I cast upon you no other burden.

Revelation 9:11

and they have over them a king, the angel of the bottomless pit, to him the name is Abaddon in Hebrew, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon, the old serpent, the one called the devil, and Satan, the one deceiving the whole world, was cast out: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.