Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

¹³ No one who is being tempted should say, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted^[a] by evil, and he himself tempts no one. ¹⁴ But each one is tempted when he^[b] is dragged away and enticed by his own desires. ¹⁵ Then desire, after it^[c] has conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, when it^[d] is brought to completion, gives birth to death.

¹⁶ Do not be deceived, my dear brothers. ¹⁷ 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 of change. ¹⁸ By his^[e] will he gave birth to us through the message of truth, so that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.