James 3:15

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

This is not the wisdom coming down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic.

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:3

And Amnon had a friend, and his name was Jonadab the son of Shimeah, David’s brother. And Jonadab was a very shrewd man.

2 Samuel 15:31

And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray, make the counsel of Ahithophel foolish.

2 Samuel 16:23

And the counsel of Ahithophel which he counseled in those days was as one who had inquired at the Word of God. So was all the counsel of Ahithophel, both to David and to Absalom.

Jeremiah 4:22

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

Luke 16:8

And the lord praised the unrighteous steward, because he acted prudently. For the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of light themselves are in their generation.

John 3:17

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

John 8:44

You are of the devil as father, and the lusts of your father you desire to do. That one was a murderer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own things, because he is a liar, and the father of it.

Acts 13:10

said, O son of the devil, full of all deceit and of all villainy, hostile to all righteousness, will you not stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?

Romans 1:22

Professing to be wise ones, they became foolish

1 Corinthians 1:27

But God chose the foolish things of the world that the wise might be put to shame, and God chose the weak things of the world so that He might put to shame the strong things.

1 Corinthians 2:14

But a natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to 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 is taking the wise ones in their own craftiness.” Job 5:13

1 Corinthians 3:3

For you are yet fleshly ones. For where among you is jealousy, and strife, and divisions, are you not fleshly ones and walking according to man?

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we had our conduct in the world in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your thoughts should be corrupted from the simplicity which is due to Christ.

Philippians 3:19

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and who glory in their shame, the ones thinking earthly things.

2 Thessalonians 2:9

His coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and miraculous signs and lying wonders,

1 Timothy 4:1

But the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceiving 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 is not any change or shadow of turning.

James 1:5

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God, the One giving to all bountifully and not reproaching, and it will be given to Him.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is firstly truly pure, then peaceable, gentle, yielding, full of mercy and of good fruits, not partial and not pretended.

Jude 1:19

These are the ones setting themselves apart, animal-like ones, not having the Spirit.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent, the one being called the devil, even Satan; the one leading astray the whole inhabited earth, was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.

Revelation 2:24

But I say to you and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this teaching, and who did not know the deep things of Satan, as they say; I am not casting another burden on you;

Revelation 9:11

And they have a king over them, the angel of the abyss. In Hebrew his name was Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.