Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God
13 [a]No one experiencing temptation should say, “I am being tempted by God”; for God is not subject to temptation to evil, and he himself tempts no one.(A) 14 Rather, each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire conceives and brings forth sin, and when sin reaches maturity it gives birth to death.
16 [b]Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers: 17 all good giving and every perfect gift[c] is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no alteration or shadow caused by change. 18 (B)He willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.[d]
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