“Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. James 1 contains 27 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.