Verse 17
James 1:17
King James Version
17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Original Language Text
greek
Πᾶσα δόσις ἀγαθὴ καὶ πᾶν δώρημα τέλειον ἄνωθέν ἐστιν, καταβαῖνον ἀπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς τῶν φώτων, παρ’ ᾧ οὐκ ἔνι παραλλαγὴ ἢ τροπῆς ἀποσκίασμα.
English Translation
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
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Chapter 1 Context
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James, a servant of God (Elohim) and of the Lord Yashua (Jesus) Christ, to the twelve tribes which a...
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My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
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3
Knowing
this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
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But let patience have
her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
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If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God (Elohim), that giveth to all
men liberally, and upbrai...
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But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven wi...
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For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
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A double minded man
is unstable in all his ways.
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9
Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
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10
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
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For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower there...
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12
Blessed
is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of lif...
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13
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God (Elohim): for God (Elohim) cannot be tempted...
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14
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
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15
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth d...
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16
Do not err, my beloved brethren.
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17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, wit...
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Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his c...
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Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
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For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God (Elohim).
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Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the eng...
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But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
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For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face...
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For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
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But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth
therein, he being not a forgetful...
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If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart,...
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Pure religion and undefiled before God (Elohim) and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and...
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