James 1:18
having willed [it], He begot us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
19So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:3Israel [is] holy to YHWH, || The first-fruit of His increase, || All consuming him are guilty, || Calamity comes to them,” || A declaration of YHWH.
John 1:13who were begotten, not of blood, nor of will of flesh, nor of will of man, but of God.
Romans 4:17who is father of us all (according as it has been written: “A father of many nations I have set you,”) before Him whom he believed—God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that are not as being.
Romans 9:15For to Moses He says, “I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion”;
Ephesians 1:12for our being to the praise of His glory, [even] those who first hoped in the Christ,
Colossians 1:20and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself—having made peace through the blood of His Cross—through Him, whether the things on the earth, whether the things in the heavens.
Matthew Henry on James 1:14-19
Procedure and Results of Sin. ( a. d. 61.) 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. 16 Do not err, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no… Read the whole commentary →