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James 3:17
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and not hypocritical.
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James 1:17
All generous giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change.
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1 Corinthians 3 19
For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written,“ He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
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1 Corinthians 2 14
The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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Philippians 3:19
Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.
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James 1:5
But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him.
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2 Corinthians 1 12
For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God– not by human wisdom but by the grace of God– we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.
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Jude 1:19
These people are divisive, worldly, devoid of the Spirit.
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1 Corinthians 2 6-1 Corinthians 2 7
Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory.
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Jeremiah 4:22
The LORD answered,“ This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”
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2 Corinthians 11 13-2 Corinthians 11 15
For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.Therefore it is not surprising his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will correspond to their actions.
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1 Corinthians 1 19-1 Corinthians 1 20
For it is written,“ I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent.”Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?
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Luke 16:8
The master commended the dishonest manager because he acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their contemporaries than the people of light.
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Revelation 2:24
But to the rest of you in Thyatira, all who do not hold to this teaching( who have not learned the so- called“ deep secrets of Satan”), to you I say: I do not put any additional burden on you.
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1 Corinthians 1 27
But God chose what the world thinks foolish to shame the wise, and God chose what the world thinks weak to shame the strong.
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2 Samuel 13 3
Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very crafty man.
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1 Timothy 4 1
Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings,
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John 8:44
You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
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Acts 13:10
and said,“ You who are full of all deceit and all wrongdoing, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness– will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?
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Romans 1:22
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
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2 Samuel 15 31
Now David had been told,“ Ahithophel has sided with the conspirators who are with Absalom. So David prayed,“ Make the advice of Ahithophel foolish, O LORD!”
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1John 3:8-10
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Revelation 9:11
They have as king over them the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.
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2 Corinthians 11 3
But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his treachery, your minds may be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
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John 3:17
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
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Genesis 3:1-5
Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman,“ Is it really true that God said,‘ You must not eat from any tree of the orchard’?”The woman said to the serpent,“ We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said,‘ You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die.’”The serpent said to the woman,“ Surely you will not die,for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil.”
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Revelation 12:9
So that huge dragon– the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world– was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.
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2 Samuel 16 23
In those days Ahithophel’s advice was considered as valuable as a prophetic revelation. Both David and Absalom highly regarded the advice of Ahithophel.
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1 Corinthians 3 3
for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?
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2 Thessalonians 2 9
The arrival of the lawless one will be by Satan’s working with all kinds of miracles and signs and false wonders,
