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Read & copy the quotation
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights.”
- Date
- 1611
- English wording
- King James Version translation committees · from Biblical Hebrew / Aramaic / Koine Greek
Meaning of “Every good gift and every perfect gift is…”
The verse directs attention toward the source of what is received as good, making gratitude a response to gifts rather than a claim of self-sufficiency.
Where does it come from?
James 1:17 in the King James Version; the verse continues with language about God’s constancy.
