James 1:17

Every good and perfect gift comes down from God, the unchanging Father of lights. God is the constant, reliable source of all genuine good.

Cross-references · 40

• John 3:27John answered, “A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
• Matt 7:11If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
• Heb 13:8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
• John 8:12Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
• Num 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
• Ps 84:11For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
• 1 Jn 1:5This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
• Prov 2:6For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
• Jas 3:17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• Eph 2:8for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
• Luke 11:13If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
• Mal 3:6“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
• Gen 1:2–5The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
• Dan 2:21–22He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding;
• 1 Cor 4:7For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
• Titus 3:3–5For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• John 1:9The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
• Gen 1:14–15God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;
• Eph 1:18having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
• Rev 21:23The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
• 1 Jn 4:10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
• 1 Chr 22:12May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.
• 2 Cor 4:6seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Exod 31:3–6and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,
• 1 Cor 12:4–12Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
• Isa 60:19The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
• 1 Sam 15:29Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”
• Rev 22:5There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.
• Heb 1:11–12They will perish, but you continue. They all will grow old like a garment does.
• Jas 1:5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
• Gen 41:16Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”
• 1 Jn 5:11–12The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
• Rom 12:6–8Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
• Eph 4:8–11Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.”
• Dan 2:27–30Daniel answered before the king, and said, The secret which the king has demanded can neither wise men, enchanters, magicians, nor soothsayers, show to the king;
• 1 Chr 29:19and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”
• Rom 11:29–30For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
• Num 11:17I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone.
• Eph 2:3–5among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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