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


In Context

12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes; or the vine, figs? So neither can the salt water yield sweet.

13 Who is a wise man, and endued with knowledge among you? Let him shew, by a good conversation, his work in the meekness of wisdom.

14 But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contentions in your hearts; glory not, and be not liars against the truth.

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

16 For where envying and contention is, there is inconstancy, and every evil work.

17 But the wisdom, that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.

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 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,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:15This wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.