ves birth to sin, and when sin reaches full growth, it gives birth to death.16 Make no mistake about this, my dear brothers:17 all that is good, all that is perfect, is given us from above; it comes down from the Father of all light; with him there is no such thing as alteration, no shadow caused by change.18 By his own choice he gave birth to us by the message of the truth so that we should be a