TWO KINDS OF WISDOM: JAMES 3:13 - 4:10

Two Kinds of Wisdom

¹³ Who is Wise and Understanding Among You? Let Him Show it by His Good Life, by Deeds Done in the Humility That Comes From Wisdom. ¹⁴ But if You Harbor Bitter Envy and Selfish Ambition in Your Hearts, do not Boast About it or Deny the Truth. ¹⁵ Such “Wisdom” does not Come Down From Heaven but is Earthly, Unspiritual, of the Devil. ¹⁶ For Where You Have Envy and Selfish Ambition, There You Find Disorder and Every Evil practice.
¹⁷ But the Wisdom That Comes From Heaven is First of All Pure; Then Peace-Loving, Considerate, Submissive, Full of Mercy and Good Fruit, Impartial and Sincere. ¹⁸ Peacemakers Who Sow in Peace Reap a Harvest of Righteousness.

Submit Yourselves to God

4 What Causes Fights and Quarrels Among You? Don’t They Come From Your Desires That Battle Within You? ²  You Want Something but Don't Get it. You Kill and Covet, but You Cannot Have What You Want,  You Quarrel and Fight. You do not Have Because You do not Ask God. ³ When You Ask, You do not Receive, Because You Ask With Wrong Motives, That You May Spend What You Get on Your Pleasures.

⁴ You Adulterous People,^[a] Don’t You Know That Friendship With the World is Hatred Towards God?  Anyone Who chooses to be a Friend of the World Becomes an Enemy of God. ⁵ Or do you Think Scripture Says Without Reason That the Spirit God Caused to Live in Us Envies Intensely? ⁶ But God Gives Us More Grace. That is Why Scripture Says:

“God Opposes the Proud
    but Gives Grace to the humble.”^[c]

⁷ Submit Yourselves, Then, to God. Resist the Devil, and He Will Flee From You. ⁸ Come Near to God and God Will Come Near to You. Wash Your Hands, You Sinners, and Purify Your Hearts, You Double-minded. ⁹ Grieve, Mourn and Wail. Change Your Laughter to Mourning and Your Joy to Gloom. ¹⁰ Humble Yourselves Before the Lord, and He Will Lift You Up.