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James 1:16

Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Temptation;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Parents;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Providence of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - James, the Letter;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - James, Epistle of;   Text of the New Testament;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Beloved ;   James Epistle of;   Lust;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Beloved;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for May 16;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters.
King James Version (1611)
Doe not erre, my beloued brethren.
King James Version
Do not err, my beloved brethren.
English Standard Version
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
New American Standard Bible
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers and sisters.
New Century Version
My dear brothers and sisters, do not be fooled about this.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.
Berean Standard Bible
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Contemporary English Version
Don't be fooled, my dear friends.
Complete Jewish Bible
Don't delude yourselves, my dear brothers.
Darby Translation
Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Easy-to-Read Version
My dear brothers and sisters, don't be fooled about this.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Erre not, my deare brethren.
George Lamsa Translation
Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Good News Translation
Do not be deceived, my dear friends!
Lexham English Bible
Do not be deceived, my dear brothers.
Literal Translation
Do not go astray, my beloved brothers,
Amplified Bible
Do not be misled, my beloved brothers and sisters.
American Standard Version
Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.
Hebrew Names Version
Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.
International Standard Version
Do not beDon't be">[fn] deceived, my dear brothers.
Etheridge Translation
Do not err, my beloved brethren;
Murdock Translation
Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Do not erre my deare brethren.
English Revised Version
Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.
World English Bible
Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,
Weymouth's New Testament
Do not be deceived, my dearly-loved brethren.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor, my most dereworthe britheren, nyle ye erre.
Update Bible Version
Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Webster's Bible Translation
Do not err, my beloved brethren.
New English Translation
Do not be led astray, my dear brothers and sisters.
New King James Version
Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.
New Living Translation
So don't be misled, my dear brothers and sisters.
New Life Bible
My Christian brothers, do not be fooled about this.
New Revised Standard
Do not be deceived, my beloved.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Be not deceived, my brethren beloved: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren.
Revised Standard Version
Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Erre not my deare brethren.
Young's Literal Translation
Be not led astray, my brethren beloved;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Erre not my deare brethre.
Mace New Testament (1729)
Don't be deluded, my brethren;
THE MESSAGE
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.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Don't go chasin' them foolish notions, cowboys.

Contextual Overview

13 Let no man say when he is tested, I am tested by God; for it is not possible for God to be tested by evil, and he himself puts no man to such a test: 14 But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire. 15 Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death. 16 Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers. 17 Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning. 18 Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Do: Matthew 22:29, Mark 12:24, Mark 12:27, Galatians 6:7, Colossians 2:4, Colossians 2:8, 2 Timothy 2:18

my: James 1:19, James 2:5, Philippians 2:12, Philippians 4:1, Hebrews 13:1

Reciprocal: Exodus 31:6 - wise hearted Exodus 35:34 - he hath 2 Chronicles 9:23 - God Ezra 1:5 - whose spirit Nehemiah 2:12 - my God Nehemiah 7:5 - put into mine Psalms 10:17 - thou wilt prepare Proverbs 16:1 - preparations Jeremiah 31:18 - turn Matthew 13:11 - Because Mark 4:11 - Unto you Luke 8:15 - in an Luke 15:17 - when John 6:65 - that no Acts 11:18 - granted Acts 16:14 - whose Acts 18:27 - believed Romans 3:12 - there is none Ephesians 2:8 - that Philippians 1:6 - begun Philippians 2:13 - God Colossians 2:12 - the faith 1 Thessalonians 1:5 - but 2 Thessalonians 2:10 - they received 2 Thessalonians 3:5 - the Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 1:7
And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.
Genesis 1:8
And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.
Genesis 1:12
And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:
Deuteronomy 4:19
And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.
Job 31:26
If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,
Job 38:7
When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?
Psalms 8:3
When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;
Psalms 19:6
His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Do not err, my beloved brethren. For to make God the author of sin, or to charge him with being concerned in temptation to sin, is a very great error, a fundamental one, which strikes at the nature and being of God, and at the perfection of his holiness: it is a denying of him, and is one of those damnable errors and heresies, which bring upon men swift destruction; and therefore to be guarded against, rejected, and abhorred by all that profess any regard unto him, his name and glory.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Do not err, my beloved brethren - This is said as if there were great danger of error in the point under consideration. The point on which he would guard them, seems to have been in respect to the opinion that God was the author of sin, and that the evils in the world are to be traced to him. There was great danger that they would embrace that opinion, for experience has shown that it is a danger into which men are always prone to fall. Some of the sources of this danger have been already alluded to. Notes, James 1:13. To meet the danger he says that, so far is it from being true that God is the source of evil, he is in fact the author of all that is good: every good gift, and every perfect gift James 1:17, is from him, James 1:18.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 16. Do not err — By supposing that God is the author of sin, or that he impels any man to commit it.


 
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