Verses 16 to 18

¹⁶  Do not err, my beloved brethren.
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  Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.