Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
This wisdom is not that which comes down
King James Version
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
Holman Bible
Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
International Standard Version
That kind of wisdom does not come from above. No, it is worldly, self-centered, and demonic.
A Conservative Version
This wisdom is not descending from above, but is earthly, world-soul, demonic.
American Standard Version
This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
Amplified
This [superficial] wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly (secular), natural (unspiritual), even demonic.
An Understandable Version
This "wisdom" is not the kind that comes from [God] above, but is earthly, unspiritual and demonic [i.e., it is motivated by an evil spirit and not the Holy Spirit].
Anderson New Testament
This wisdom comes not from above, but is earthly, animal, demoniac.
Bible in Basic English
This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.
Common New Testament
This wisdom is not such as comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
Daniel Mace New Testament
such wisdom is not derived from heaven; but is terrestrial, sensual, demoniacal.
Darby Translation
This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish.
Godbey New Testament
This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but it is earthly, intellectual, and demoniacal.
Goodspeed New Testament
Such wisdom does not come from above. It is earthly, animal, demon-like.
John Wesley New Testament
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, animal, devilish.
Julia Smith Translation
This is wisdom coming not down from above, but earthly, natural, resembling an evil spirit.
King James 2000
This wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.
Lexham Expanded Bible
This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but [is] earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
Modern King James verseion
This is not the wisdom coming down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
This wisdom descendeth not from above: but is earthy, and natural, and devilish.
Moffatt New Testament
That is not the wisdom which comes down from above, it is an earthly wisdom, sensuous, devilish;
Montgomery New Testament
Such wisdom is not that which is descending from on high, but is earthly, sensual, demonlike.
NET Bible
Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, natural, demonic.
New Heart English Bible
This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
Noyes New Testament
This wisdom is not that which descendeth from above, but earthly, sensual, devilish.
Sawyer New Testament
This wisdom comes not from above, but is earthly, natural, demoniacal.
The Emphasized Bible
This wisdom is not one, from above, coming down, but is earthly, born of the soul, demoniacal!
Thomas Haweis New Testament
This is not the wisdom which cometh from above, but is earthly, sensual, diabolical.
Twentieth Century New Testament
That is not the wisdom which comes from above; no, it is earthly, animal, devilish.
Webster
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, demoniacal.
Weymouth New Testament
That is not the wisdom which comes down from above: it belongs to earth, to the unspiritual nature, and to evil spirits.
Williams New Testament
This is not the kind of wisdom that comes down from above; no, it is earthly, human, demoniacal.
World English Bible
This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
Worrell New Testament
This wisdom is not the wisdom that comes down from above; but is earthly, soulish, demoniacal!
Worsley New Testament
this is not the wisdom, that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and diabolical:
Youngs Literal Translation
this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,
Themes
Confusion » Where confusion is
Envy » The place where envy exists
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in James 3:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Wisdom That Comes Down From Above
14
But if you have bitter
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Cross References
James 1:17
Every good thing given and every perfect gift is
Jude 1:19
These are the ones who cause divisions,
1 Corinthians 3:19
For
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our
1 Timothy 4:1
But
Genesis 3:1-5
Now
2 Samuel 13:3
But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab, the son of
2 Samuel 15:31
Now someone told David, saying, “
2 Samuel 16:23
Jeremiah 4:22
They know Me not;
They are stupid children
And have no understanding.
They are shrewd to
But to do good they do not know.”
Luke 16:8
John 3:17
John 8:44
Acts 13:10
and said, “You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you
Romans 1:22
1 Corinthians 1:19-20
For it is written,
“
And the cleverness of the clever I will set aside.”
1 Corinthians 1:27
but
1 Corinthians 2:6-7
Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are
1 Corinthians 2:14
But
1 Corinthians 3:3
for you are still fleshly. For since there is
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I am afraid that, as the
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
For such men are
Philippians 3:19
whose end is destruction, whose god is their
2 Thessalonians 2:9
that is, the one whose
James 1:5
But if any of you
James 3:17
But the wisdom
1 John 3:8-10
the one who practices sin is
Revelation 2:24
Revelation 9:11
They have as king over them, the angel of the
Revelation 12:9
And the great