James 1:15

1:15 Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

James 1:18

1:18 By his sovereign plan he gave us birth ¹  through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

[1:18]  ¹ tn Grk “Having willed, he gave us birth.”