James 1:18 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

¹⁸ Having willed he brought forth by the word of truth, for us to be some first fruit of his creatures.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creatures.

James 1:18 Tagairtí Cros

Jeremiah 2:3

Israel is holy to Jehovah, the beginning of the produce: all consuming him shall transgress; evil shall come upon them, says Jehovah.

Leviticus 23:10

Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When ye shall come into the land which I give to you, and ye reaped its harvest, and brought a handful of the first-fruits of your harvest to the priest:

Amos 6:1

Wo! to those living at ease in Zion, and trusting in the mountain of Shomeron, being distinguished the chief of the nations, and to them the house of Israel came.

John 1:13

They were not born of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Romans 4:17

(As it has been written, That have set thee father of many nations,) over against him who believed God, making alive the dead, and calling things not being as being.

1 Corinthians 4:15

For if ye have ten thousand preceptors in Christ, but not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus by the good news I begat you.

2 Corinthians 6:7

In the word of truth, in the power of God, through the weapons of justice of the right hands and the left,

Ephesians 1:12

For us to be to the praise of his glory, who before hoped in Christ.

Ephesians 1:13

In whom ye also, having heard the word of truth, the good news of your salvation: in whom also having believed, ye were sealed by the holy Spirit of solemn promise,

2 Timothy 2:15

Be earnest to present thyself acceptable to God, a worker without shame, dividing rightly the word of truth.

Hebrews 12:23

To the assembly of people, and church of the firstborn, transcribed in the heavens, and to God the Judge of all, and. to the spirits of the just perfected,

James 1:15

So then lust conceiving, brings forth sin: and sin performed, produces death.

James 1:21

Wherefore having put away all sordid avarice, and excess of wickedness, in meekness receive the implanted word, able to save your souls.

James 3:14

And if ye have bitter envy and intrigue in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth.

1 Peter 1:23

Begotten again, not of corrupted seed, but uncorrupted, by the word of God, living and remaining forever.

1 Peter 1:3

Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy having begotten us again to a living hope, by the rising up of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 John 3:9

Every one born of God does not sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, for he has been born of God.

Revelation 14:4

There are they who were not contaminated by women; for they are virgins. These are they following the Lamb wherever he should lead. These were purchased from men, first fruits to God and the Lamb.