Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

¹³ Let no man, being tempted, say, I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted by evil things, and himself tempts no one.

¹⁴ But every one is tempted, drawn away, and enticed by his own lust;

¹⁵ then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin fully completed brings forth death.

¹⁶ Do not err, my beloved brethren.

¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of turning.

¹⁸ According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain first-fruits of *his* creatures.