James 1:18
having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
19So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:3Holy [is] Israel to Jehovah, The first-fruit of His increase, All consuming him are guilty, Evil cometh in unto them, an affirmation of Jehovah.
John 1:13who — not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but — of God were begotten.
Romans 4:17who is father of us all (according as it hath been written — 'A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe — God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.
Romans 9:15for to Moses He saith, '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 did first hope in the Christ,
Colossians 1:20and through him to reconcile the all things to himself — having made peace through the blood of his cross — through him, whether the things upon 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 →