James 1:2
Let it be all joy to you, my brethren, when ye enter into many and various trials.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
In Context
3For ye know, that the trial of your faith, maketh you possess patience.
Cross References
Matthew 5:10Blessed are they that are persecuted on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs!
Acts 5:41And they went from before them, rejoicing that they were worthy to suffer abuse on account of that name.
Romans 8:35What will sever me from the love of Messiah? Will affliction? or distress? or persecution? or famine? or nakedness? or peril? or the sword?
Philippians 1:29And this is given to you by God, that ye not only really believe in the Messiah, but also that ye suffer on his account;
Philippians 2:18And so also do ye rejoice and exult with me.
Hebrews 10:34and ye were grieved for those who were imprisoned; and ye cheerfully endured the plundering of your goods, because ye knew that ye had a possession in heaven, superior and not transitory.
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 →