James 3:15

The Wisdom That Comes Down From Above

¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, do not be boasting of that, and be false to the truth. ¹⁵ Such wisdom is not that which is descending from on high, but is earthly, sensual, demonlike. ¹⁶ For wherever jealousy and faction exist, there is confusion and every evil deed.

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James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, and is ever coming down to us from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of eclipse.

Jude 1:19

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

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the philosophy of this world is foolishness in God's sight. It is written, He snares the wise in their own craftiness,

2 Corinthians 1:12

For this is my proud boast, the testimony of my conscience, that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that I have conducted myself in the world, and above all in my relations with you.

1 Timothy 4:1

Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in latter days there will be some who will fall away from the faith, by listening to spirits of error, and to teachings of demons

Luke 16:8

"And the master praised the unjust steward because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this world are in relation to their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.

John 3:17

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

John 8:44

"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.

Acts 13:10

"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?

Romans 1:22

While they professed to be wise, they became fools,

1 Corinthians 1:19-20

For thus it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the philosophers, And the prudence of the prudent will I confound.

1 Corinthians 1:27

No, God has chosen the world's folly to confound its philosophy; and the world's weakness to confound its strength.

1 Corinthians 2:6-7

Notwithstanding, among those who are mature I do teach philosophy; though not the philosophy of the present age, nor of its rulers who are coming to nought.

1 Corinthians 2:14

The unspiritual man rejects the teachings of God's Spirit; for him it is folly. He cannot understand it, for it is spiritually discerned,

1 Corinthians 3:3

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?

2 Corinthians 11:3

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.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

For such fellows are sham apostles of Christ.

Philippians 3:19

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

2 Thessalonians 2:9

even he whose coming is according to the energy of Satan, in every power and sign and lying wonder,

James 1:5

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.

James 3:17

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.

1 John 3:8-10

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.

Revelation 2:24

But to the rest of you in Thyatira, those who do not hold his teaching, and who do not know the "deep things" of Satan (as they call them),

Revelation 9:11

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

Revelation 12:9

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.