James 3:15

The Wisdom That Comes Down From Above

¹⁴ But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and lie not against the truth. ¹⁵ This wisdom comes not from above, but is earthly, natural, demoniacal. ¹⁶ For where envy and strife are, there are disorder and every evil work.

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James 1:17

All good giving, and every perfect gift, comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or shadow of turning.

Jude 1:19

These are they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written; He takes the wise in their craftiness.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For this is our rejoicing; the testimony of our conscience that in purity and godly sincerity, not with a carnal wisdom, but with a divine grace, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and most abundantly towards you.

1 Timothy 4:1

But the Spirit says expressly, that in the last times some shall apostatize from the faith, attending to lying spirits and doctrines of demons,

Luke 16:8

And the lord praised the unjust steward, because he did wisely; for the children of this life are wiser, for their generation, than the children of light.

John 3:17

For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world through him might be saved.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and stood not by the truth; for truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own; for he is a liar, and the father of him [that lies].

Acts 13:10

said, O full of all deceit and all craft, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Romans 1:22

Saying that they were wise they became foolish,

1 Corinthians 1:19-20

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the intelligent.

1 Corinthians 1:27

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world has God chosen to put to shame the mighty,

1 Corinthians 2:6-7

But we speak wisdom among the perfect, but not the wisdom of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, who are destroyed;

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the natural man receives not the [things] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, for they are spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are yet carnal. For when there is envy and strife among you are you not carnal and walk as men?

2 Corinthians 11:3

but I fear lest as the serpent deceived Eve with his craftiness, so also your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

For such false apostles, deceitful laborers, transform themselves into apostles of Christ.

Philippians 3:19

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

2 Thessalonians 2:9

whose coming is according to the power of Satan, with all power and miracles and false prodigies

James 1:5

And if any one of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and upbraids not, and it shall be given him.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be persuaded, full of mercy and of good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy.

1 John 3:8-10

he that commits sin is of the devil, for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this was the Son of God manifested, to destroy the works of the devil.

Revelation 2:24

But I say to the rest of you in Thyatira who have not this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will put on you no other burden;

Revelation 9:11

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

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon, the old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, and who deceives all the world, was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast [to the earth] with him.