James 3:15 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁵ This is not the wisdom coming down from above, but it is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ This [superficial] wisdom is not such as comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual (animal), even devilish (demoniacal).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ This is not the wisdom that comes down from above. Instead, it is from the earth, natural and demonic.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ For this is not wisdom, descending from above, but rather it is earthly, beastly, and diabolical.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ For this is not wisdom, descending from above: but earthly, sensual, devilish.

James 3:15 Cross References

2 Samuel 13:3

And Amnon had a friend whose name was Yonaḏaḇ son of Shim‛ah, Dawiḏ’s brother. Now Yonaḏaḇ was a very wise man.

2 Samuel 15:31

And Dawiḏ was informed, saying, “Aḥithophel is among the conspirators with Aḇshalom.” And Dawiḏ said, “O יהוה, I pray You, make the counsel of Aḥithophel foolish!”

2 Samuel 16:23

Now the advice Aḥithophel gave in those days was as if one had inquired at the word of Elohim. So was all the advice of Aḥithophel both to Dawiḏ and to Aḇshalom.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are stupid children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”

Luke 16:8

“And the master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly, because the sons of this age are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light.

John 3:17

“For Elohim did not send 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 wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.

Acts 13:10

and said, “O son of the devil, filled with all deceit and all recklessness, you enemy of all righteousness, shall you not cease perverting the straight ways of יהוה?

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

1 Corinthians 1:27

But Elohim has chosen the foolish matters of the world to put to shame the wise, and Elohim has chosen the weak of the world to put to shame the strong.

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the natural man does not receive the matters of the Spirit of Elohim, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with Elohim. For it has been written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still fleshly. For since there is envy, and strife, and divisions among you, are you not fleshly and walking according to man?

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our boasting is this: the witness of our conscience that we behaved ourselves in the world in simplicity and sincerity of Elohim, not in fleshly wisdom but in the favour of Elohim, and much more toward you.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid, lest, as the serpent deceived Ḥawwah by his trickery, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Messiah.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction, their mighty one is their stomach, and their esteem is in their shame – they mind the earthly.

2 Thessalonians 2:9

The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,

1 Timothy 4:1

But the Spirit distinctly says that in latter times some shall fall away from the belief, paying attention to misleading spirits, and teachings of demons,

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of turning.

James 1:5

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of Elohim, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it shall be given to him.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first clean, then peaceable, gentle, ready to obey, filled with compassion and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

Jude 1:19

These are the ones who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was thrown out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who leads all the world astray. He was thrown to the earth, and his messengers were thrown out with him.

Revelation 2:24

“And to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not possess this teaching, and who have not known the depths of Satan, as they call them, I am not putting on you another burden.

Revelation 9:11

And they have over them a sovereign, the messenger of the pit of the deep, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apolluon.