the Third Sunday after Easter
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James 1:16
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Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters.
Doe not erre, my beloued brethren.
Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers and sisters.
My dear brothers and sisters, do not be fooled about this.
Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Don't be fooled, my dear friends.
Don't delude yourselves, my dear brothers.
Do not err, my beloved brethren.
My dear brothers and sisters, don't be fooled about this.
Erre not, my deare brethren.
Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Do not be deceived, my dear friends!
Do not be deceived, my dear brothers.
Do not go astray, my beloved brothers,
Do not be misled, my beloved brothers and sisters.
Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.
Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers.
Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Do not beDon't be">[fn] deceived, my dear brothers.
Do not err, my beloved brethren;
Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Do not erre my deare brethren.
Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.
Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,
Do not be deceived, my dearly-loved brethren.
Therfor, my most dereworthe britheren, nyle ye erre.
Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Do not be led astray, my dear brothers and sisters.
So don't be misled, my dear brothers and sisters.
My Christian brothers, do not be fooled about this.
Do not be deceived, my beloved.
Be not deceived, my brethren beloved: -
Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren.
Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.
Erre not my deare brethren.
Be not led astray, my brethren beloved;
Erre not my deare brethre.
Don't be deluded, my brethren;
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.
Don't go chasin' them foolish notions, cowboys.
Contextual Overview
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
Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.
And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.
Then God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so.
And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years;
And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the LORD your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.
If I have observed the sun [fn] when it shines,Or the moon moving in brightness,
When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
Its rising is from one end of heaven, And its circuit to the other end; And there is nothing hidden from its 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.
