But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Yehonadav, the son of Shim`a, David's brother; and Yehonadav was a very subtle man.
James 3:15 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition This [superficial] wisdom is not such as comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual (animal), even devilish (demoniacal). American Standard Version (1901) This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. Common English Bible This is not the wisdom that comes down from above. Instead, it is from the earth, natural and demonic. Catholic Public Domain Version For this is not wisdom, descending from above, but rather it is earthly, beastly, and diabolical. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For this is not wisdom, descending from above: but earthly, sensual, devilish. |
But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Yehonadav, the son of Shim`a, David's brother; and Yehonadav was a very subtle man.
One told David, saying, Achitofel is among the conspirators with Avshalom. David said, LORD, please turn the counsel of Achitofel into foolishness.
The counsel of Achitofel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Achitofel both with David and with Avshalom.
For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
*His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.
and said, *Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;
Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, *He has taken the wise in their craftiness.*
for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Chavah in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Messiah.
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
even he whose coming is according to the working of Hasatan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.
The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Hasatan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don't have this teaching, who don't know what some call 'the deep things of Hasatan,' to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.
They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is *Avaddon,* but in Greek, he has the name *Apollyon.*