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


In Context

12 Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.

13 Who is wise and understanding among you? let him shew by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.

14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

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

16 For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.

17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, 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 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.