TSK · James 1:18

Israel was set apart to the LORD; they were like the first fruits of a harvest to him. All who tried to devour them were punished; disaster came upon them,” says the LORD.

– children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband’s decision, but by God.

(as it is written,“I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed– the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.

For he says to Moses:“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, would be to the praise of his glory.

and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross– through him, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

and congregation of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous, who have been made perfect,

New Birth to Joy and Holiness Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God’s seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.