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


In Context

12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

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 you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

15 This wisdom descends 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 entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

James 3:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:15This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:15Such "wisdom" does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, of the devil.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:15For this is not wisdom, descending from above: but earthly, sensual, devilish.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:15This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:15This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:15This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:15This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, demoniacal.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:15This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:15this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,