James 1:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

My brethren, count it exceeding ioy, when ye fall into diuers tentations,

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  • 1 Pet 1:6-8 : 6 Wherein yee reioyce, though nowe for a season (if neede require) yee are in heauinesse, through manifolde tentations, 7 That the triall of your faith, being much more precious then golde that perisheth (though it be tried with fire) might bee founde vnto your praise, and honour and glorie at the appearing of Iesus Christ: 8 Whome yee haue not seene, and yet loue him, in whome nowe, though yee see him not, yet doe you beleeue, and reioyce with ioy vnspeakeable and glorious,
  • Jas 1:12 : 12 Blessed is ye man, that endureth tentation: for when he is tried, hee shall receiue the crowne of life, which the Lorde hath promised to them that loue him.
  • Matt 5:10-12 : 10 Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousnes sake: for theirs is the kingdome of heauen. 11 Blessed shall ye be when men reuile you, and persecute you, & say all maner of euill against you for my sake, falsely. 12 Reioyce and be glad, for great is your reward in heauen: for so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you.
  • Luke 6:22-23 : 22 Blessed are ye when men hate you, and when they separate you, & reuile you, & put out your name as euill, for the Sonne of mans sake. 23 Reioyce ye in that day, and be glad: for beholde, your reward is great in heauen: for after this maner their fathers did to the Prophets.
  • Acts 5:41 : 41 So they departed from the Councill, reioycing, that they were counted worthy to suffer rebuke for his Name.
  • 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 And he said vnto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is made perfect through weakenesse. Very gladly therefore will I reioyce rather in mine infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproches, in necessities, in persecutions, in anguish for Christes sake: for when I am weake, then am I strong.
  • Rom 8:17-18 : 17 If we be children, we are also heires, euen the heires of God, and heires annexed with Christ: if so be that we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him. 18 For I count that the afflictions of this present time are not worthy of the glory, which shalbe shewed vnto vs.
  • Rom 8:35-37 : 35 Who shall separate vs from the loue of Christ? shall tribulation or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakednesse, or perill, or sworde? 36 As it is written, For thy sake are we killed all day long: we are counted as sheepe for the slaughter. 37 Neuerthelesse, in all these thinges we are more then coquerours through him that loued vs.
  • Phil 1:29 : 29 For vnto you it is giuen for Christ, that not onely ye should beleeue in him, but also suffer for his sake,
  • Col 1:24 : 24 Now reioyce I in my suffrings for you, and fulfill the rest of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his bodies sake, which is the Church,
  • Heb 11:36-38 : 36 And others haue bene tryed by mockings and scourgings, yea, moreouer by bondes and prisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were hewen asunder, they were tempted, they were slaine with the sworde, they wandred vp and downe in sheepes skinnes, and in goates skinnes, being destitute, afflicted, and tormented: 38 Whom the world was not worthie of: they wandered in wildernesses and mountaines, and dennes, and caues of the earth.
  • Rev 2:10 : 10 Feare none of those things, which thou shalt suffer: beholde, it shall come to passe, that the deuill shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tryed, and ye shall haue tribulation tenne dayes: be thou faithfull vnto the death, and I will giue thee the crowne of life.
  • Heb 10:34 : 34 For both ye sorowed with mee for my bonds, and suffered with ioy the spoyling of your goods, knowing in your selues howe that ye haue in heauen a better, and an enduring substance.
  • 1 Pet 4:13-16 : 13 But reioyce, in asmuch as ye are partakers of Christs suffrings, that when his glory shall appeare, ye may be glad and reioyce. 14 If yee be railed vpon for the Name of Christ, blessed are ye: for the spirit of glory, and of God resteth vpon you: which on their part is euill spoken of: but on your part is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murtherer, or as a thiefe, or an euil doer, or as a busibodie in other mens matters. 16 But if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not bee ashamed: but let him glorifie God in this behalfe.
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 The Lorde knoweth to deliuer the godly out of tentation, and to reserue the vniust vnto the day of iudgement vnder punishment.
  • Phil 2:17 : 17 Yea, and though I bee offered vp vpon the sacrifice, and seruice of your faith, I am glad, and reioyce with you all.

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  • 1 Pet 1:6-8
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    6Wherein yee reioyce, though nowe for a season (if neede require) yee are in heauinesse, through manifolde tentations,

    7That the triall of your faith, being much more precious then golde that perisheth (though it be tried with fire) might bee founde vnto your praise, and honour and glorie at the appearing of Iesus Christ:

    8Whome yee haue not seene, and yet loue him, in whome nowe, though yee see him not, yet doe you beleeue, and reioyce with ioy vnspeakeable and glorious,

  • Jas 1:3-5
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    3Knowing that ye trying of your faith bringeth forth patience,

    4And let patience haue her perfect worke, that ye may be perfect & entier, lacking nothing.

    5If any of you lacke wisedome, let him aske of God, which giueth to all men liberally, & reprocheth no man, and it shalbe giuen him.

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    1Iames a seruant of God, and of the Lorde Iesus Christ, to the twelue Tribes, which are scattered abroade, salutation.

  • Jas 1:12-16
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    12Blessed is ye man, that endureth tentation: for when he is tried, hee shall receiue the crowne of life, which the Lorde hath promised to them that loue him.

    13Let no man say when hee is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God can not bee tempted with euill, neither tempteth he any man.

    14But euery man is tempted, when hee is drawen away by his owne concupiscence, and is entised.

    15Then when lust hath conceiued, it bringeth foorth sinne, and sinne when it is finished, bringeth foorth death.

    16Erre not, my deare brethren.

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    12Dearely beloued, thinke it not strange concerning the firie triall, which is among you to proue you, as though some strange thing were come vnto you:

    13But reioyce, in asmuch as ye are partakers of Christs suffrings, that when his glory shall appeare, ye may be glad and reioyce.

  • Jas 5:10-13
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    10Take, my brethren, the Prophets for an ensample of suffering aduersitie, and of long patience, which haue spoken in the Name of the Lord.

    11Beholde, we count them blessed which endure. Ye haue heard of the patience of Iob, and haue knowen what ende the Lord made. For the Lord is very pitifull and mercifull.

    12But before all thinges, my brethren, sweare not, neither by heauen, nor by earth, nor by any other othe: but let your yea, be yea, and your nay, nay, lest ye fall into condemnation.

    13Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any merie? Let him sing.

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    3Neither that onely, but also we reioyce in tribulations, knowing that tribulation bringeth forth patience,

  • 1 Pet 5:9-10
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    9Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren which are in the world.

    10And the God of all grace, which hath called vs vnto his eternall glory by Christ Iesus, after that ye haue suffered a litle, make you perfite, confirme, strengthen and stablish you.

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    9Let the brother of lowe degree reioyce in that he is exalted:

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    18Of his owne will begate hee vs with the woorde of trueth, that we shoulde be as the first fruites of his creatures.

    19Wherefore my deare brethren, let euery man be swift to heare, slowe to speake, and slowe to wrath.

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    9Suffer afflictions, and sorrowe ye, and weepe: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your ioy into heauinesse.

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    4So that we our selues reioyce of you in the Churches of God, because of your patience & faith in al your persecutions & tribulatios that ye suffer,

    5Which is a manifest token of the righteous iudgement of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdome of God, for the which ye also suffer.

    6For it is a righteous thing with God, to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you,

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    18For the same cause also be ye glad, and reioyce with me.

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    3And I wrote this same thing vnto you, lest when I came, I should take heauines of them, of whom I ought to reioyce: this confidence haue I in you all, that my ioye is the ioye of you all.

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    19Brethren, if any of you hath erred from the trueth, and some man hath conuerted him,

  • Jude 1:24
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    24Nowe vnto him that is able to keepe you, that ye fall not, and to present you faultlesse before the presence of his glorie with ioy,

  • 1 Thess 2:20
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    20Yes, ye are our glory and ioy.

  • 1 Thess 1:6
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    6And ye became followers of vs, and of the Lorde, and receiued the worde in much affliction, with ioy of the holy Ghost,

  • 1 Thess 5:16
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    16Reioyce euermore.

  • 1 Cor 10:13
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    13There hath no tentation taken you, but such as appertaine to man: and God is faithfull, which will not suffer you to be tempted aboue that you be able, but wil euen giue the issue with the tentation, that ye may be able to beare it.

  • Jude 1:17
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    17But, yee beloued, remember the wordes which were spoken before of the Apostles of our Lord Iesus Christ,

  • Heb 2:18
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    18For in that he suffered, and was tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

  • 3 John 1:5
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    5Beloued, thou doest faithfully, whatsoeuer thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers,

  • Matt 5:12
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    12Reioyce and be glad, for great is your reward in heauen: for so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you.

  • Luke 8:13
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    13But they that are on the stones, are they which when they haue heard, receiue ye word with ioy: but they haue no rootes: which for a while beleeue, but in the time of tentation goe away.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22Hauing purified your soules in obeying the trueth through the spirite, to loue brotherly without faining, loue one another with a pure heart feruently,

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    3Because yee haue tasted that the Lorde is bountifull.

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    7Therefore, brethren, we had consolation in you, in all our affliction and necessitie through your faith.

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    15Reioyce with them that reioyce, & weepe with them that weepe.

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    11Now no chastising for the present seemeth to be ioyous, but, grieuous: but afterwarde, it bringeth the quiet fruite of righteousnesse, vnto them which are thereby exercised.

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    9For they that will be rich, fall into tentation and snares, and into many foolish and noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition and destruction.

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    16But nowe ye reioyce in your boastings: all such reioycing is euill.

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    5Euen for this cause, when I could no longer forbeare, I sent him that I might knowe of your faith, lest the tempter had tempted you in any sort, and that our labour had bene in vaine.

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    1Therefore, my brethre, beloued and longed for, my ioy and my crowne, so continue in the Lorde, yee beloued.