James 1:18 - English Majority Text Version

¹⁸ Exercising His will He begat us by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits 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.

James 1:18 Mga Krus na Reperensya

John 1:13

who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Romans 4:17

(just as it is written, "I have appointed you a father of many nations") before God, whom he believed, the One who gives life to the dead and calls those things which are not as though they were;

1 Corinthians 4:15

For though you might have ten thousand guides in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

2 Corinthians 6:7

through the word of truth, through the power of God, through the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left hand,

Ephesians 1:12

so that we should be to the praise of His glory, we who first trusted in Christ;

Ephesians 1:13

in whom also you, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

2 Timothy 2:15

Be diligent to show yourself approved unto God, a worker unashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Hebrews 12:23

to the general assembly and church of the firstborn in the heavens, to God the Judge of all, and to spirits of just men made perfect,

James 1:15

Then lust, when it conceives, gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

James 1:21

Therefore laying aside all filthiness and abundance of evil, in meekness receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.

1 Peter 1:23

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 John 3:9

No one who has been born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

Revelation 14:4

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever He may go. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.