James 1:16

King James Version (1611 Edition)

Doe not erre, my beloued brethren.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters.

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.

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 he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with euill, neither tempteth he any man. ¹⁴ But euery man is tempted, when hee is drawen away of his owne lust, and entised. ¹⁵ Then when lust hath conceiued, it bringeth forth sinne: and sinne, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. ¹⁶ Doe not erre, my beloued brethren. ¹⁷ Euery good gift, and euery perfect gift is from aboue, & commeth downe from the Father of lights, with whom is no variablenesse, neither shadow of turning. ¹⁸ Of his owne will begate hee vs, with the word of Trueth, that wee should bee a kinde of 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
And God made the firmament; and diuided 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: and the euening and the morning were the second day.

Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered together vnto one place, and let the dry land appeare: and it was so.

Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought foorth grasse, and herbe yeelding seed after his kinde, and the tree yeelding fruit, whose seed was in it selfe, after his kinde: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there bee lights in the firmament of the heauen, to diuide 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 sun, and the moone, and the starres, euen all the hoste of heauen, shouldest be driuen to worship them, and serue them, which the Lord thy God hath diuided vnto all nations vnder the whole heauen.

Job 31:26
If I beheld the Sunne when it shined, or the Moone walking in brightnesse:

Job 38:7
When the morning starres sang together, and all the sonnes of God shouted for ioy.

Psalms 8:3
When I consider thy heauens, the worke of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordained;

Psalms 19:6
His going forth is from the end of the heauen, and his circuite vnto the ends of it: and there is nothing hidde from the heat 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.