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## James 1:18-21 in Context (Verses 15–24 KJV)
 
 [15 ](/kjv/james/1/15) Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/james/1/16) Do not err, my beloved brethren.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/james/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.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/james/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.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/james/1/19) Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
 
 [20 ](/kjv/james/1/20) For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/james/1/21) Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/james/1/22) But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/james/1/23) For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
 
 [24 ](/kjv/james/1/24) For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
 
[Hebrews 13](/kjv/hebrews/13) [James 2](/kjv/james/2)

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