James 3:15
such ‘wisdom’ is not coming down from Above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
In Context
16Because where envy and selfish ambition exist, there is unruliness and every foul practice.
Cross References
John 3:17For God did not send His Son into the world in order to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him.
Acts 13:10said: “O full of all deceit and all trickery, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?
1 Corinthians 1:19For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and confound the shrewdness of the intelligent.”
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 →