James 3:15
This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
In Context
16For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
Cross References
Genesis 3:1Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”
2 Samuel 15:31Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
Jeremiah 4:22“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
John 3:17For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
Acts 13:10and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
1 Corinthians 1:19For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”
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 →