James 3:15

But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit,

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no cha

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly th

The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he can

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teac

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relatio

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be giv

These are the ones who cause divisions, who are worldly and devoid of the Spirit.

“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in

for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walkin

Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who

For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son o

Now in those days the advice of Ahithophel was like the consultation of the word of God. Such was the regard that both D

The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in de

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did G

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,

and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will y

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refus

I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your sim

The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false won

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the str

And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. H

Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the

But I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned the so-called deep things

Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very shrewd man,

They were ruled by a king, the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek it is Apollyon.