{"id":11560,"date":"2024-06-16T21:42:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T04:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11560"},"modified":"2024-06-15T21:44:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T04:44:21","slug":"two-kinds-of-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11560","title":{"rendered":"Two Kinds of Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>13&nbsp;<\/sup>Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it&nbsp;by their good life, by deeds&nbsp;done in the humility that comes from wisdom.&nbsp;<sup>14&nbsp;<\/sup>But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition&nbsp;in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.&nbsp;<sup>15&nbsp;<\/sup>Such \u201cwisdom\u201d does not come down from heaven&nbsp;but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.&nbsp;<sup>16&nbsp;<\/sup>For where you have envy and selfish ambition,&nbsp;there you find disorder and every evil practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>17&nbsp;<\/sup>But the wisdom that comes from heaven&nbsp;is first of all pure; then peace-loving,&nbsp;considerate, submissive, full of mercy&nbsp;and good fruit, impartial and sincere.&nbsp;<sup>18&nbsp;<\/sup>Peacemakers&nbsp;who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=James+3&amp;version=NIV\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=James+3&amp;version=NIV\">James 3:13-18<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13&nbsp;Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it&nbsp;by their good life, by deeds&nbsp;done in the humility that comes from wisdom.&nbsp;14&nbsp;But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition&nbsp;in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.&nbsp;15&nbsp;Such \u201cwisdom\u201d does not come down from heaven&nbsp;but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.&nbsp;16&nbsp;For where you have envy and selfish ambition,&nbsp;there you find disorder and every evil practice. 17&nbsp;But the wisdom that comes from heaven&nbsp;is first of all pure; then peace-loving,&nbsp;considerate,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11560\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-30s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11561,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560\/revisions\/11561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}