¹⁶So don’t be misled, my dear brothers and sisters. ¹⁷Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens.#1:17a Greek from above, from the Father of lights. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow.#1:17b Some manuscripts read He never changes, as a shifting shadow does. ¹⁸He chose to give birth to us by giving us his true word. And we, out of all creation, became his prized possession.#1:18 Greek we became a kind of firstfruit of his creatures.