James 3:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

James 3:15 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 3:17
But 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.
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Philippians 3:19
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
1 Timothy 4:1
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-18)

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 hell) and that which is from above. I. We have some account of true wisdom, with t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. This wisdom--in which ye “glory,” as if ye were “wise” (Jas 3:13, 14). descendeth not from above--literally, “is not one descending,” &c.: “from the Father of lights” (true illumination and wisdom), Jas 1:17; through “the Spirit of truth,” Joh 15:26. earthly--opposed to heavenly. Distinct from “earthy,” 1Co 15:47. Earthly is what is IN the earth; earthy, what is of the earth. sensual--literall…