James 1:18 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁸ 7 Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And it was of His own [free] will that He gave us birth [as sons] by [His] Word of Truth, so that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures [a sample of what He created to be consecrated to Himself].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Common English Bible

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.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ For by his own will he produced us through the Word of truth, so that we might be a kind of beginning among his creatures.

James 1:18 Cross References

1 Peter 1:23

To you therefore that believe, he is honour: but to them that believe not, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner:

John 1:13

1 And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elias? And he said: I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered: No.

1 Peter 1:3

2 To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you they ministered those things which are now declared to you by them that have preached the gospel to you, the Holy Ghost being sent down from heaven, on whom the angels desire to look.

Revelation 14:4

3 And I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me: Write: Blessed are the dead, who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; for their works follow them.

Jeremiah 2:3

1 If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods,: but my people have changed their glory into an idol.

Ephesians 1:12

1 Above all principality, and power, and virtue, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.

1 John 3:9

8 My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.

Hebrews 12:23

Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them; and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body.

James 1:21

And you have respect to him that is clothed with the fine apparel, and shall say to him: Sit thou here well; but say to the poor man: Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool:

1 Corinthians 4:15

I indeed, absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, him that hath so done,

Romans 4:17

5 Who was delivered up for our sins, and rose again for our justification.

Amos 6:1

And if there remain ten men in one house, they also shall die.

Leviticus 23:10

5 You shall count therefore from the morrow after the sabbath, wherein you offered the sheaf of the firstfruits, seven full weeks.

2 Corinthians 6:7

6 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God; as God saith: I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Ephesians 1:13

2 And he hath subjected all things under his feet, and hath made him head over all the church,

2 Timothy 2:15

4 But the servant of the Lord must not wrangle: but be mild towards all men, apt to teach, patient,

James 1:15

4 For he beheld himself, and went his way, and presently forgot what manner of man he was.

James 3:14

Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?