18 In the exercise of (A)His will He (B)gave us birth by (C)the word of truth, so that we would be [a]a kind of (D)first fruits [b]among His creatures.

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Footnotes

  1. James 1:18 Or a certain first fruits
  2. James 1:18 Lit of

16-18 So, my very dear friends, don’t get thrown off course. Every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of heaven. The gifts are rivers of light cascading down from the Father of Light. There is nothing deceitful in God, nothing two-faced, nothing fickle. He brought us to life using the true Word, showing us off as the crown of all his creatures.

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