James 3:15

The Wisdom That Comes Down From Above

¹⁴ But if you cherish bitter feelings of jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on it and thus belie the truth. ¹⁵ Such wisdom does not come from above. It is earthly, animal, demon-like. ¹⁶ For wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there will be confusion and every low action.

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James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect present is from heaven, and comes down from the Father of the heavenly lights, about whom there is no variation of changing shadow.

Jude 1:19

These are the men who create division; they are animal and devoid of the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For this world's wisdom is foolishness to God. For the Scripture says, "He who catches the wise with their own cunning,"

2 Corinthians 1:12

For my boast is what my conscience tells me, that my relations to the world and still more to you have been marked by pure motives and godly sincerity, not by worldly shrewdness but by the favor of God.

1 Timothy 4:1

The Spirit distinctly says that in later times some will turn away from the faith, and devote their attention to deceitful spirits and the things that demons teach

Luke 16:8

And his master praised the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder in their relation to their own age than the sons of the light.

John 3:17

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

John 8:44

The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.

Acts 13:10

and said, "You monster of underhandedness and cunning! You son of the devil! You enemy of all that is right! Will you never stop trying to make the Lord's straight paths crooked?

Romans 1:22

They called themselves wise, but they have turned into fools,

1 Corinthians 1:19-20

For the Scripture says, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And I will thwart the shrewdness of the shrewd!"

1 Corinthians 1:27

But it was what the world calls foolish that God chose to put the wise to shame with, and it was what the world calls weak that God chose to shame its strength with,

1 Corinthians 2:6-7

Yet there is a wisdom that we impart when we are with people who have a mature faith, but it is not what this world calls wisdom, nor what the authorities of this world, doomed as they are to pass away, would call so.

1 Corinthians 2:14

A material man will not accept what the Spirit of God offers. It seems mere folly to him, and he cannot understand it, because it takes spiritual insight to see its true value.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still worldly. For when there are still jealousy and quarrels among you, are you not worldly and living on a merely human level?

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that just as the serpent by his cunning deceived Eve, your thoughts will be led astray from their single-hearted fidelity to Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

Such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

Philippians 3:19

They are doomed to destruction: their appetites are their god; they glory in their shame; they are absorbed in earthly matters.

2 Thessalonians 2:9

The other's appearance, by the contrivance of Satan, will be full of power and pretended signs and wonders,

James 1:5

If any one of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask God who gives generously to everyone, and does not reproach one with it afterward, and he will give it to him.

James 3:17

The wisdom that is from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, considerate, willing to yield, full of compassion and good deeds, whole-hearted, straightforward.

1 John 3:8-10

Whoever commits sin is a child of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. This is why the Son of God appeared??o undo the devil's work.

Revelation 2:24

But to the rest of you at Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching and have not learned the "deep things" of Satan, as they call them??o you I say, I have no fresh burden to lay on you,

Revelation 9:11

They had over them as king the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he is called Apollyon.

Revelation 12:9

So the great dragon, the ancient serpent who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.