James 1:16

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

Do not err, my beloved brothers.

American King James Version (AKJV)

Do not err, my beloved brothers.

American Standard Version (ASV)

Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.

Basic English Translation (BBE)

Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers.

Webster's Revision

Do not err, my beloved brethren.

World English Bible

Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.

English Revised Version (ERV)

Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.

Clarke's James 1:16 Bible Commentary

Do not err - By supposing that God is the author of sin, or that he impels any man to commit it.

Barnes's James 1:16 Bible Commentary

Do not err, my beloved brethren - This is said as if there were great danger of error in the point under consideration. The point on which he would guard them, seems to have been in respect to the opinion that God was the author of sin, and that the evils in the world are to be traced to him. There was great danger that they would embrace that opinion, for experience has shown that it is a danger into which men are always prone to fall. Some of the sources of this danger have been already alluded to. Notes, James 1:13. To meet the danger he says that, so far is it from being true that God is the source of evil, he is in fact the author of all that is good: every good gift, and every perfect gift James 1:17, is from him, James 1:18.

Wesley's James 1:16 Bible Commentary

1:16 Do not err - It is a grievous error to ascribe the evil and not the good which we receive to God.