James 3:15

The Wisdom That Comes Down From Above

¹⁴ But if you are cherishing bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on that ??and be false to the truth. ¹⁵ That is not the wisdom which comes down from above, it is an earthly wisdom, sensuous, devilish; ¹⁶ for wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there disorder reigns and every evil.

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Evil Spirit

Evil Spirits

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Of The Earth

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James 1:17

all we are given is good, and all our endowments are faultless, descending from above, from the Father of the heavenly lights, who knows no change of rising and setting, who casts no shadow on the earth.

Jude 1:19

These are the people who set up divisions and distinctions, sensuous creatures, destitute of the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For God ranks this world's wisdom as 'sheer folly.' It is written, He seizes the wise in their craftiness,

2 Corinthians 1:12

My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.

1 Timothy 4:1

But in later days, the Spirit distinctly declares, certain people will rebel against the faith; they will listen to spirits of error and to the doctrines that daemons teach

Luke 16:8

Well, the master praised the dishonest factor for looking ahead; for the children of this world look further ahead in dealing with their own generation than the children of Light.

John 3:17

God did not send his Son into the world to pass sentence on it, but to save the world by him.

John 8:44

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Acts 13:10

and said, "You son of the devil, you enemy of all good, full of all craft and all cunning, will you never stop diverting the straight paths of the Lord?

Romans 1:22

They claimed to be wise, but they have become fools;

1 Corinthians 1:19-20

It is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the sages, I will confound the insight of the wise.

1 Corinthians 1:27

No, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame what is strong;

1 Corinthians 2:6-7

We do discuss 'wisdom' with those who are mature; only it is not the wisdom of this world or of the dethroned Powers who rule this world,

1 Corinthians 2:14

The unspiritual man rejects these truths of the Spirit of God; to him they are 'sheer folly,' he cannot understand them. And the reason is, that they must be read with the spiritual eye.

1 Corinthians 3:3

you are still worldly. For with jealousy and quarrels in your midst, are you not worldly, are you not behaving like ordinary men?

2 Corinthians 11:3

but I am afraid of your thoughts getting seduced from a single devotion to Christ, just as the serpent beguiled Eve with his cunning.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

'Apostles'? They are spurious apostles, false workmen ??they are masquerading as 'apostles of Christ.'

Philippians 3:19

Destruction is their fate, the belly is their god, they glory in their shame, these men of earthly mind!

James 1:5

Whoever of you is defective in wisdom, let him ask God who gives to all men without question or reproach, and the gift will be his.

James 3:17

The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, forbearing, conciliatory, full of mercy and wholesome fruit, unambiguous, straightforward;

1 John 3:8-10

he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. (This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil.)

Revelation 2:24

But for the rest of you at Thyatira, for all who do not hold these tenets, for those who have not (in their phrase) 'fathomed the deep mysteries of Satan' ??for you this is my word: I impose no fresh burden on you;

Revelation 9:11

they had a king over them, the angel of the abyss ??his Hebrew name is Abaddon, but in Greek he is called Apollyon.

Revelation 12:9

So the huge dragon was thrown down ??that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, the seducer of the whole world ??thrown down to the earth, and his angels thrown down along with him.