James 3:15 Cross References - WPNT

¹⁵ such ‘wisdom’ is not coming down from Above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.

⁸ The master even ‘commended’ the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. The sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of the Light.

¹⁷ For 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.

⁴⁴ You are of your father the devil, and it is the desires of your father that you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks the lie he speaks from his own things, because he is a liar and the father of lying .

¹⁰ said: “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?

²² Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

¹⁹ For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and confound the shrewdness of the intelligent.” ²⁰ Where is the wise one? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

²⁷ but God has chosen the foolish things of the world that He might put the wise to shame, and God has chosen the weak things of the world that He might put the strong things to shame;

⁶ However, we do speak wisdom among the mature, albeit not the wisdom of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are being set aside; ⁷ but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom that God ordained before the ages for our glory,

¹⁴ Now a soulish man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; indeed, he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

³ because you are still fleshly! For since there is envy, strife and divisions among you, are you not carnal and acting like ordinary people?

¹⁹ Because the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness;”

¹² Now this is our boast: the testimony of our conscience that we have conducted ourselves in the world with openness and godly sincerity, not by fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and especially toward you.

³ But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve with his cunning, so your minds may be corrupted from the integrity that is in Christ.

¹³ Such men are really false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into ‘apostles’ of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder, because Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. ¹⁵ So it is no great thing if his servants also masquerade as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

¹⁹ whose end is ruin, whose god is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame; their mind is only on earthly things.

⁹ that one’s coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

¹ Now the Spirit says explicitly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceiving spirits and to things taught by demons

⁵ But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from the giving God, who gives to all liberally and does not reproach, and it will be given to him.

¹⁷ every good giving and every perfect gift is from Above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

¹⁷ In contrast, the wisdom from Above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

⁸ He who keeps doing sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God was manifested for this purpose: to undo the devil’s works. ⁹ Whoever has been begotten by God does not commit sin, because His seed remains in him; actually, he is not able to sin, because he has been begotten by God. ¹⁰ In this the children of God and the children of the devil are distinguished: whoever isn’t doing righteousness is not of God, also whoever isn’t loving his brother.

¹⁹ These are the ones who cause division; they are ‘soulish’, not having a spirit.

²⁴ ‘Now to the rest of you who are in Thyatira I say—to as many as do not hold this teaching, those who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say—I am not putting any other burden on you;

¹¹ having as king over them the angel of the Abyss—his name in Hebrew is Abbadon, while in Greek he has the name Apollyon.

⁹ So the great dragon was expelled, that ancient serpent, who is called Slanderer and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited world; he was thrown into the earth, and his angels were expelled with him.