¹⁷ Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.^[a](A)

³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.^(A)

²⁹ for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

⁶ For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, have not perished.^(A)

⁴⁴ Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them or abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God,^(A)

²⁰ Thus says the Lord: If any of you could break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night would not come at their appointed time,^(A)