James 1:2
All joy shall be to you, my brethren, when you shall have entered into temptations many and various.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
In Context
3For you know that the proving of faith maketh you to possess patience;
Cross References
Matthew 5:10Blessed they who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Acts 5:41And they went out from before them, rejoicing to be worthy for the sake of the Name to be ill treated.
Romans 8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Meshiha? Affliction, or sorrow, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword?
Philippians 1:29And this from Aloha hath been given to you, not only believing to believe in the Meshiha, but also for his sake to suffer,
Philippians 2:18so also you be glad and rejoice with me.
Hebrews 10:34And it afflicted you on account of them who were bound; and the pillage of your goods with joy ye sustained, as knowing that ye have a possession in heaven, which is better, and passeth not away.
Matthew Henry on James 1:2
ames The writer of this epistle was not James the son of Zebedee; for he was put to death by Herod ( Acts xii. ) before Christianity had gained so much ground among the Jews of the dispersion as is here implied. But it was the other James, the son of Alpheus, who was cousin-german to Christ, and one of the twelve apostles, Matt. x. 3 . He is called a pillar ( Gal. ii. 9 ), and this epistle of his cannot be disputed, without loosening a foundation-stone. It is called a general epistle, because (as some think) not… Read the whole commentary →