James 1:16

Geneva Bible

Erre not, my deare brethren.

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.

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.

Bible in Basic English
Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers.

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 hee is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God can not bee tempted with euill, neither tempteth he any man. ¹⁴ But euery man is tempted, when hee is drawen away by his owne concupiscence, and is entised. ¹⁵ Then when lust hath conceiued, it bringeth foorth sinne, and sinne when it is finished, bringeth foorth death. ¹⁶ Erre not, my deare brethren. ¹⁷ Euery good giuing, and euery perfect gift is from aboue, and commeth downe from the Father of lights, with whome is no variablenes, neither shadow of turning. ¹⁸ Of his owne will begate hee vs with the woorde of trueth, that we shoulde be as the first fruites of his creatures.

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
Then God made the firmament, and separated the waters, which were vnder the firmament, from the waters which were aboue the firmament. and it was so.

Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament Heauen. So the Euening and the morning were the seconde day.

Genesis 1:9
God saide againe, Let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appeare. and it was so.

Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought foorth the bud of the herbe, that seedeth seede according to his kind, also the tree that beareth fruite, which hath his seede in it selfe according to his kinde: and God sawe that it was good.

Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there be lightes in the firmament of the heauen, to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signes, and for seasons, and for dayes and yeeres.

Deuteronomy 4:19
And lest thou lift vp thine eyes vnto heauen, and when thou seest the sunne & the moone and the starres with all the host of heauen, shouldest bee driuen to worship them and serue them, which the Lord thy God hath distributed to all people vnder the whole heauen.

Job 31:26
If I did behold the sunne, when it shined, or the moone, walking in her brightnes,

Job 38:7
When the starres of the morning praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced:

Psalms 8:3
When I beholde thine heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordeined,

Psalms 19:6
His going out is from the ende of the heauen, and his compasse is vnto the endes of ye same, and none is hid from the heate thereof.

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.