New TestamentJamesThe Origin of Good · 1:16–181:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.