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James 3:15

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

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  1. James 3:13

    Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

  2. James 3:14

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

  3. James 3:16

    For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

  4. James 3:17

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

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.