James 3:15
For this is not wisdom, descending from above, but rather it is earthly, beastly, and diabolical.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
In Context
16For wherever envy and contention is, there too is inconstancy and every depraved work.
Cross References
Genesis 3:1However, the serpent was more crafty than any of the creatures of the earth that the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Why has God instructed you, that you should not eat from every tree of Paradise?”
2 Samuel 15:31Then it was reported to David that Ahithophel also had joined in swearing with Absalom. And David said, “O Lord, I beg you, to uncover the foolishness of the counsel of Ahithophel.”
Jeremiah 4:22For my foolish people have not known me. They are foolish and mad sons. They are clever in doing evil, but they do not know how to do good.
John 3:17For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.
Acts 13:10and he said: “So full of every deceit and of all falsehoods, son of the devil, enemy of all justice, you never cease to subvert the righteous ways of the Lord!
1 Corinthians 1:19For it has been written: “I will perish the wisdom of the wise, and I will reject the discernment of the prudent.”
Matthew Henry on James 3:14-18
Properties of Wisdom. ( a. d. 61.) 13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be… Read the whole commentary →