James 3:15

English Majority Text Version

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.

Cross References

Luke 16:8

So the master praised the unrighteous manager because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of light.

John 3:17

For God did not send His Son into the world so that He might condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you desire 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 tells a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Acts 13:10

he said, "O full of all guile and all craft, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

Romans 1:22

Professing to be wise, they became fools,

1 Corinthians 1:27

But God chose the foolish things of the world in order that He might humiliate the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world in order that He might humiliate the mighty.

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 3:19

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

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal, and walking according to human principles?

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that we have conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and especially toward you.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear, lest perhaps as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Philippians 3:19

whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame--who are mindful of earthly things.

2 Thessalonians 2:9

whose coming is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,

1 Timothy 4:1

Now the Spirit explicitly says, that in latter times some will fall away from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,

James 1:17

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

James 1:5

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, 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 pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

Jude 1:19

These are those who cause divisions, wordly, not having the Spirit.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Revelation 2:24

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

Revelation 9:11

having as a king over them the angel of the bottomless pit; whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon.