Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

¹³ Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted by God. For God is not a tempter of evils, and he tempteth no man.

¹⁴ But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.

¹⁵ Then when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.

¹⁶ Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren.

¹⁷ Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration.

¹⁸ For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creatures.