James 3:15

The Text-Critical English New Testament

This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, and demonic.

Cross References

Luke 16:8

So the master commended the unrighteous steward because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the sons of light.

John 3:17

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved through him.

John 8:44

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks lies, he speaks from his own character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Acts 13:10

and said, “O son of the devil, full of all deceit and all trickery, enemy of all righteousness, will yoʋ not cease perverting the straight paths of the Lord?

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools

1 Corinthians 1:27

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.

1 Corinthians 2:14

The natural man does not accept what comes from the Spirit of God, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it because it is spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 3:19

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

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still of the flesh. For where there is jealousy, strife, and division among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving like mere men?

2 Corinthians 1:12

Now this is the reason for our confidence: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with integrity and godly sincerity, not by worldly wisdom, but by the grace of God.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds will be led astray from simple devotion to Christ.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.

2 Thessalonians 2:9

The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the working of Satan, with all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs, and wonders,

1 Timothy 4:1

Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will fall away from the faith and occupy themselves with deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,

James 1:17

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming 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, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given to him.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial, and unhypocritical.

Jude 1:19

These people cause divisions; they are worldly and do not have the Spirit.

Revelation 12:9

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Revelation 2:24

But to the rest of you who are in Thyatira, who do not hold to this teaching and have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan—to you I say: I place no further burden upon you.

Revelation 9:11

They have as king over them the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek his name is Apollyon.