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James 3:15 KJV
James · chapter 3 · verse 15
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.James 3:15 · King James Version
James 3:15 in context
13Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
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Key words (Strong's)
- descendethesti"he/she/it is"G2076 →
- descendethkaterchomaito come down, go down, of one who goes from a higher to a lower locality, of those who…G2718 →
- earthlyepigeiosexisting upon the earth, earthly, terrestrialG1919 →
- sensualpsychikosof or belonging to breath, having the nature and characteristics of the breath, the…G5591 →
- wisdomsophiawisdom, broad and full of intelligence used of the knowledge of very diverse matters, the…G4678 →
- aboveanōthenfrom above, from a higher place, of things which come from heaven or God, from the first…G509 →
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As the sins before condemned arise from an affectation of being thought more wise than others, and being endued with more knowledge than they, so the apostle in these verses shows the difference between men's pretending to be wise and their being really so, and between the wisdom which is from beneath (from earth or…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-18