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Green's Literal Translation

James 1:16

Do not go astray, my beloved 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.
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 one being tempted say, I am tempted from God. For God is not tempted by evil, and He tempts no one. 14 But each one is tempted by his own lusts, being drawn out and being seduced by them . 15 Then having conceived lust brings forth sin. And sin being fully formed brings forth death. 16 Do not go astray, my beloved brothers, 17 every act of good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom is no change or shadow of turning. 18 Having purposed, He brought us forth by the Word of truth, for us to be a certain firstfruit 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 expanse, and He separated between the waters which were under the expanse and the waters which were above the expanse. And it was so.
Genesis 1:8
And God called the expanse, Heavens. And there was evening, and there was morning the second day.
Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be collected to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth bore tender sprouts, the plant seeding seed according to its kind, and the fruit tree producing fruit according to its kind, whichever seed is in it. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years.
Deuteronomy 4:19
and that you not lift up your eyes towards the heavens and shall see the sun, and the heavens, and you be drawn away and worship them, and serve them; which Jehovah your God has allotted to all the peoples under all the heavens.
Job 31:26
if I looked to the light when it shone, or the splendid moon marching,
Job 38:7
when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Psalms 8:3
When I look upon Your heavens, the work of Your fingers: the moon and the stars which You have fixed;
Psalms 19:6
his going forth from the end of the heavens, and his orbit to their ends; and nothing is hidden from 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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