James 1:2

Coverdale Bible (1535)

My brethren, counte it exceadynge ioye whe ye fall in to diuers temptacions,

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  • 1 Pet 1:6-8 : 6 in the which ye shal reioyse, though now for a litle season (yff nede requyre) ye are in heuynes thorow manyfolde temptacions: 7 that youre faith once tryed (beynge moch more precious then the corruptible golde that is tryed thorow the fyre) might be founde vnto laude, glory and honoure at the appearynge of Iesus Christ: 8 whom ye haue not sene, and yet loue him: in whom now ye beleue, though ye se him not. Euen so shal ye reioyce also with vnoutspeakable and glorious ioye,
  • Jas 1:12 : 12 Happy is the man that endureth in teptacion, for when he is tryed, he shal receaue the crowne of life, which the LORDE hath promised to them that loue him.
  • Matt 5:10-12 : 10 Blessed are they which suffre persecucion for rightwesnes sake: for theirs is the kyngdome of heuen. 11 Blessed are ye when men reuyle you, and persecute you, and falsly say all manner of yuell saynges against you for my sake. 12 Reioyce and be glad, for greate is youre rewarde in heue.For so persecuted they the Prophetes which were before youre dayes.
  • Luke 6:22-23 : 22 Blessed are ye, whan men hate you, and put you out of their copanyes, and reuyle you, and cast out youre name as an euell thinge, for the sonne of mans sake. 23 Reioyse ye then, and be glad: for beholde, youre rewarde is greate in heauen. Euen thus dyd their fathers vnto the prophetes also.
  • Acts 5:41 : 41 But they departed from the presence of the councell, reioysinge, that they were worthy to suffre rebuke for his names sake.
  • 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 And he sayde vnto me: My grace is sufficiet for the. For my strength is made perfecte thorow weaknes. Very glad therfore wil I reioyse in my weaknesses, that the strength of Christ maye dwell in me. 10 Therfore am I contente in infirmities, in rebukes, in necessities, in persecucions, in anguysshes for Christes sake: for wha I am weake, the am I stroge.
  • Rom 8:17-18 : 17 Yf we be childre, then are we heyres also, namely the heyres of God, and heyres annexed with Christ, yf so be that we suffer together, that we maye be also glorified together. 18 For I suppose, that the affliccions off this tyme, are not worthy of ye glorye, which shalbe shewed vpon vs.
  • Rom 8:35-37 : 35 Who will separate vs from the loue of God? Trouble? or anguysh? or persecucio? or honger? or nakednesse? or parell? or swerde? 36 As it is wrytten: For thy sake are we kylled all the daye longe, we are counted as shepe appoynted to be slayne. 37 Neuerthelesse in all these thinges we ouercome farre, for his sake that loued vs.
  • Phil 1:29 : 29 For vnto you it is geuen, not onely that ye shulde beleue on Christ, but also suffre for his sake,
  • Col 1:24 : 24 Now ioye I in my sufferynges, which I suffre for you, and fulfill that which is behynde of the passions of Christ in my flesh, for his bodyes sake, which is the congregacion,
  • Heb 11:36-38 : 36 Other taisted of mockinges and scourginges, of bondes also and presonment: 37 were stoned, were hewen a sunder, were tempted, were slayne with the swerde, wente aboute in shepe skynnes and goates skynnes, in nede, in tribulacion, in vexacion, 38 which (men) the worlde was not worthy of: they wandred aboute in wyldernesses, vpon mountaynes, in dennes and caues of the earth.
  • Rev 2:10 : 10 Feare none of tho thinges which thou shalt soffre. Beholde, ye deuell shal cast of you in to preson, to tempte you, and ye shal haue tribulacion x. dayes. Be faithfull vnto the deeth, and I wil geue ye a crowne of life.
  • Heb 10:34 : 34 For ye haue suffred with my bodes, and toke a worth ye spoylinge of youre goodes, and that with gladnes, knowynge in youre selues, how that ye haue in heauen a better & an enduringe substaunce.
  • 1 Pet 4:13-16 : 13 but reioyce, in as moch as ye are partakers of Christes passios, yt wha his glory appeareth, ye maye be mery & glad. 14 Yf ye be reuyled for ye name of Christ, blessed are ye, for ye sprete (which is ye sprete of glory & of God) resteth vpon you. On their parte he is euell spoken of, but on yor parte he is praysed. 15 But se that none of you suffre as a murthurer, or as a thefe, or as an euell doer, or as a busy body in other mens matters. 16 Yf eny man suffre as a Christen man, let him not be ashamed, but let him prayse God on this behalfe.
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 The LORDE knoweth how to delyuer the godly out of tentacion, and how to reserue the vniust vnto the daye of iudgment for to be punyshed:
  • Phil 2:17 : 17 Yee and though I be offred vp vpo the offerynge & sacrifice of youre faith, I am glad, and reioyce with you all:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Pet 1:6-8
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    6 in the which ye shal reioyse, though now for a litle season (yff nede requyre) ye are in heuynes thorow manyfolde temptacions:

    7 that youre faith once tryed (beynge moch more precious then the corruptible golde that is tryed thorow the fyre) might be founde vnto laude, glory and honoure at the appearynge of Iesus Christ:

    8 whom ye haue not sene, and yet loue him: in whom now ye beleue, though ye se him not. Euen so shal ye reioyce also with vnoutspeakable and glorious ioye,

  • Jas 1:3-5
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    3 for as moche as ye knowe, how yt the tryinge of youre faith bringeth pacience:

    4 and let pacience haue her parfect worke, yt ye maye be parfecte aud sounde, lakinge nothinge.

    5 Yf eny of you lacke wyssdome, let him axe of God, which geueth to all men indifferentlie, and casteth no man in the teth: and it shal be geue him.

  • Jas 1:1
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    1 Iames the seruaunt of God and of the LORDE Iesus Christ, sendeth gretinge to the xij. trybes which are scatered here & there.

  • Jas 1:12-16
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    12 Happy is the man that endureth in teptacion, for when he is tryed, he shal receaue the crowne of life, which the LORDE hath promised to them that loue him.

    13 Let no man saye when he is tempted, yt he is tempted of God. For God tepteth not vnto euell, nether tepteth he eny man.

    14 But euery ma is tepted, drawne awaye, & entysed of his awne cocupiscece.

    15 The whe lust hath conceaued, she bringeth forth synne, & synne when it is fynished, bringeth forth deeth.

    16 Erre not my deare brethre.

  • 1 Pet 4:12-13
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    12 Derely beloued, maruell not at this heate (which is come amoge you to trye you) as though some strauge thinge happened vnto you:

    13 but reioyce, in as moch as ye are partakers of Christes passios, yt wha his glory appeareth, ye maye be mery & glad.

  • Jas 5:10-13
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    10 Take (my brethren) the prophetes for an ensample of sufferynge aduersitie, and of longe pacience, which spake in the name of the LORDE.

    11 Beholde we counte them happy which endure. Ye haue hearde of ye paciece of Iob, and haue knowen what ende the LORDE made. For the LORDE is very pitifull and mercifull.

    12 But aboue all thinges my brethre, sweare not, nether by heaue, nether by earth, nether by eny other othe. Let youre ye be ye, and yor naye naye: lest ye faule in to ypocricy.

    13 Yf eny of you be euell vexed, let hi praye. Yf eny of you be mery, let him singe Psalmes.

  • Rom 5:3
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    3 Not onely yt, but we reioyse also i troubles, for so moch as we knowe, yt trouble bryngeth paciece,

  • 1 Pet 5:9-10
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    71%

    9 whome resiste stedfast in the faith, and knowe, that youre brethren in the worlde haue euen the same affliccions.

    10 But ye God of all grace, which hath called you to his euerlastinge glory in Christ Iesu, shal his owne selfe make you perfecte, which suffre a litle season: eue he shal settle, strength, and stablish you.

  • Jas 1:9
    70%

    9 Let the brother of lowe degre reioyce, in yt he is exalted:

  • Jas 1:18-19
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    18 Of his awne will begat he vs with the worde of life, that we shulde be the fyrst frutes of his creatures.

    19 Wherfore deare brethren, let euery man be swifte to heare, slowe to speake, and slowe to wrath.

  • Jas 4:9
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    9 Suffre affliccions: sorowe ye and wepe. Let youre laughter be turned to mornynge, and youre ioye to heuynes.

  • 2 Thess 1:4-6
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    4 so that we oure selues make oure boast of you (in the congregacions of God) of youre paciece and faith in all youre persecucions and troubles that ye suffre,

    5 which is a token of the righteous iudgment of God, that ye are counted worthy of the kyngdome of God, for the which ye also suffre.

    6 For it is a righteous thinge with God, to recopence tribulacion vnto the yt trouble you:

  • Phil 2:18
    69%

    18 be ye glad also, and reioyce ye with me.

  • 2 Cor 2:3
    68%

    3 And the same haue I wrytten vnto you, lest wha I come, I shulde take heuynes of them, of whom I oughte to reioyse: for somoch as I haue this confidence in you all, that my ioye is the ioye of you all.

  • Jas 5:19
    68%

    19 Brethren, yf eny of you erre fro the trueth and another conuert him,

  • Jude 1:24
    68%

    24 Vnto him that is able to kepe you, that ye faule not, and to present you fautlesse before ye presence of his glory with ioye,

  • 1 Thess 2:20
    68%

    20 Yes ye are oure prayse and ioye.

  • 1 Thess 1:6
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    6 And ye became the folowers of vs and of the LORDE: and receaued the worde in moch affliccion with ioye of the holy goost:

  • 1 Thess 5:16
    67%

    16 Reioyse alwaye,

  • 1 Cor 10:13
    67%

    13 There hath yet no teptacion ouertaken you, but soch as foloweth the nature of man. Neuertheles God is faithfull, which shal not suffre you to be tempted aboue youre strength, but shal in the myddes of ye temptacion make a waye to come out, that ye maye beare it.

  • Jude 1:17
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    17 But ye beloued, remeber the wordes which were spoken before of the Apostles of oure LORDE Iesus Christ,

  • Heb 2:18
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    18 For in that he himselfe suffred and was tempted, he is able to sucker them that are tempted.

  • 3 John 1:5
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    5 My beloued, thou doest faithfully what so euer thou doest to the brethren and to straugers,

  • Matt 5:12
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    12 Reioyce and be glad, for greate is youre rewarde in heue.For so persecuted they the Prophetes which were before youre dayes.

  • Luke 8:13
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    13 But they on ye stone, are soch as whan they heare it, receaue the worde with ioye, and these haue no rote: they beleue for a whyle, and in the tyme of temptacion they fall awaye.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
    67%

    22 Euen ye which haue purifyed youre soules in obeyenge the trueth thorow the sprete, for to loue brotherly without faynynge, & feruently one to loue another wt a pure hert,

  • 1 Pet 2:3
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    3 yf so be that ye haue taisted how frendly the LORDE is.

  • 1 Thess 3:7
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    7 therfore brethren we haue consolacion in you in all oure trouble and necessite thorow youre faith.

  • Rom 12:15
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    15 Be mery with them that are mery and wepe with them that wepe.

  • Heb 12:11
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    11 No maner chastisynge for the present tyme semeth to be ioyous, but greuous: neuertheles afterwarde it bringeth the quyete frute of righteousnes, vnto them which are exercysed therby.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9 For they that wylbe riche, fall in to the teptacion and snare, and in to many folisshe & noysome lustes, which drowne men in destruccion and damnacion.

  • Jas 4:16
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    16 But nowe ye reioyce in youre bostinges. All soche reioysynge is euell.

  • 1 Thess 3:5
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    5 For this cause seynge I coulde no longer forbeare, I sent, that I mighte haue knowlege of youre faith, lest happly the tempter had tempted you, and lest oure laboure had bene in vayne.

  • Phil 4:1
    66%

    1 Wherfore my brethre dearly beloued & longed for, my ioye & my crowne contynue so in the LORDE ye beloued.