James 1:16

16 Don't be misled, my dear brothers and sisters.

James 1:16 Meaning and Commentary

James 1:16

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.

James 1:16 In-Context

14 Everyone is tempted by their own cravings; they are lured away and enticed by them.

15 Once those cravings conceive, they give birth to sin; and when sin grows up, it gives birth to death.

16 Don't be misled, my dear brothers and sisters.

17 Every good gift, every perfect gift, comes from above. These gifts come down from the Father, the creator of the heavenly lights, in whose character there is no change at all.

18 He chose to give us birth by his true word, and here is the result: we are like the first crop from the harvest of everything he created.