James 1:17

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Every good gyfte and every parfayt gyft is from above and commeth doune fro the father of light with whom is no variablenes nether is he chaunged vnto darcknes.

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  • John 3:27 : 27 Iohn answered and sayde: a man can receave no thinge at all except it be geve him fro heaven.
  • Matt 7:11 : 11 Yf ye then which are evyll cane geve to youre chyldren good gyftes: how moche moore shall youre father which is in heve geve good thynges to them yt axe hym?
  • Num 23:19 : 19 The Lorde is not a ma that he can lye nether the sonne of a ma that he can repent: shulde he saye and not doo or shulde he speake and not make it good?
  • 1 John 1:5 : 5 And this is the tydynges which we have hearde of him and declare vnto you that god is lyght and in him is no darknes at all
  • Heb 13:8 : 8 Iesus Christ yesterdaye and to daye and the same continueth for ever.
  • Jas 3:17 : 17 But the wisdom that is from above is fyrst pure then peasable gentle and easy to be entreated full of mercy and good frutes without iudgynge and without simulacio:
  • 1 Cor 4:7 : 7 For who preferreth the? What hast thou that thou hast not receaved? Yf thou have receaved it why reioysest thou as though thou haddest not receaved it?
  • John 8:12 : 12 Then spake Iesus agayne vnto them sayinge: I am the light of the worlde. He that foloweth me shall not walke in darcknes: but shall have the light of lyfe.
  • Luke 11:13 : 13 Yf ye then which are evyll canne geve good giftes vnto youre chyldren how moche more shall the father of heaven geve an holy sprete to them that desyre it of him?
  • John 1:9 : 9 That was a true lyght which lyghteth all men that come into the worlde.
  • Exod 31:3-6 : 3 And I haue filled hi with the sprete of God, with wisdome, vnderstondinge ad knowlege: eue in all maner worke, 4 to finde out sotle faytes, to worke in golde syluer ad brasse 5 and with the crafte to graue stones, to set ad to carue in tibre ad to worke in all maner workmashipe. 6 And beholde, I haue geue him to be his companion Ahaliab the sonne of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan, and in the hertes of all that are wise harted I haue put wisdom to make all that I haue commaunded the:
  • Eph 2:8 : 8 For by grace are ye made safe thorowe fayth and that not of youre selves. For it is the gyfte of God
  • Heb 1:11-12 : 11 They shall perisshe but thou shalt endure. They all shall wexe olde as doth a garment: 12 and as a vesture shalt thou chaunge them and they shalbe chaunged. But thou arte all wayes and thy yeres shall not fayle.
  • Titus 3:3-5 : 3 For we oure selves also were in tymes past vnwyse disobedient deceaved in daunger to lustes and to diuers maners of volupteousnes livynge in maliciousnes and envie full of hate hatinge one another. 4 But after that the kyndnes and love of oure saveoure God to mawarde appered 5 not of ye dedes of rightewesnes which we wrought but of his mercie he saved vs by ye foutayne of the newe birth and with the renuynge of the holy goos
  • 1 John 4:10 : 10 Herin is love not that we loved god but that he loved vs and sent his sonne to make agrement for oure sinnes.
  • Rev 21:23 : 23 and the cite hath no nede of the sonne nether of the mone to lyghten it. For the bryghtnes of God dyd light it: and the lambe was the light of it.
  • Rev 22:5 : 5 And there shall be no nyght there and they nede no candle nether light of the sunne: for the LORde God geveth them light and they shall raygne for evermore.
  • Num 11:17 : 17 And I wyll come doune and talke with the there and take of yt spirite which is apon the and put apon them ad they shall bere with the in the burthen of the people and so shalt thou not beare alone.
  • Gen 1:2-5 : 2 The erth was voyde and emptie ad darcknesse was vpon the depe and the spirite of god moved vpon the water 3 Than God sayd: let there be lyghte and there was lyghte. 4 And God sawe the lyghte that it was good: and devyded the lyghte from the darckness 5 and called the lyghte daye and the darcknesse nyghte: and so of the evenynge and mornynge was made the fyrst day
  • Gen 1:14-15 : 14 Than sayd God: let there be lyghtes in ye firmament of heaven to devyde the daye fro the nyghte that they may be vnto sygnes seasons days and yeares. 15 And let them be lyghtes in the fyrmament of heave to shyne vpon the erth. and so it was.
  • Gen 41:16 : 16 And Ioseph answered Pharao saynge: God shall geue Pharao an answere of peace without me.
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 Ye and leste thou lyfte vpp thyne eyes vnto heuen, and when thou seyst the sonne and the mone and the starres and what soeuer is contayned in heauen, shuldest be disceaued and shuldest bow thi selfe vnto them ad serue the thinges which the Lorde thy God hath distributed vnto all nacions that are vnder al quarters of heauen.

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