King James Version
James 3:15 in the King James Version says “This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. sensual: or, natural” — study this verse from James chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. sensual: or, natural”
James 3:15 · KJV
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.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. sensual: or, natural
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. confusion: Gr. tumult or unquietness
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. partiality: or, wrangling
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“sensual”
G5591sensitive, i.e., animate (in distinction on the one hand from g4152, which is the higher or renovated nature; and on the other from g5446, which is th
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