James 3:15

James Moffatt - New Testament

That is not the wisdom which comes down from above, it is an earthly wisdom, sensuous, devilish;

Cross References

James 3:17

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

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.

1 Corinthians 3:19

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

Philippians 3:19

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Jude 1:19

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

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?

John 3:17

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

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.

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 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;

2 Thessalonians 2:9

that One whose arrival is due to Satan's activity, with the full power, the miracles and portents, of falsehood,

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.

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;

Romans 1:22

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

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?

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.

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.