James 1:2

James 1:2
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

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Genesis 22:1
After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

2 Chronicles 32:31
However, concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him to test him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

Job 23:10
But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

Daniel 11:35
Some of those who are wise will fall—to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end, because it is yet for the time appointed.

Hebrews 11:17
By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his only born son,

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Job 1:11
But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Job 1:12
Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.

Job 2:5
But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Job 2:6
Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”

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Job 5:17
“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

Psalms 119:71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

Hebrews 12:6
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

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Psalms 32:6
For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

Psalms 42:7
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

Psalms 66:12
You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

Isaiah 43:2
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

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Isaiah 61:10
I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Romans 5:11
Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Philippians 3:1
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

Philippians 4:4
Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

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Matthew 6:13
Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

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Acts 27:41
But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.

1 Corinthians 4:9
For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

1 Corinthians 4:10
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

1 Corinthians 4:11
Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

1 Corinthians 4:12
We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

1 Corinthians 4:13
Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God and not from ourselves.

2 Corinthians 4:11
For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

2 Corinthians 11:24
Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.

2 Corinthians 11:25
Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.

2 Corinthians 11:26
I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

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Proverbs 3:17
Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

John 16:20
Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

Acts 13:52
The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

Romans 14:17
for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

1 Thessalonians 1:6
You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

1 Thessalonians 3:9
For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

1 Thessalonians 5:18
In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

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1 Timothy 6:9
But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

James 5:8
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

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Matthew 5:10
Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Luke 22:29
I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me,

Romans 8:17
and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

Romans 8:18
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

2 Corinthians 1:4
who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

2 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day.

2 Corinthians 4:18
while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Ephesians 3:13
Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

1 Thessalonians 3:3
that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

2 Timothy 2:3
You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 2:12
If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

2 Timothy 3:12
Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

Hebrews 2:18
For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

Hebrews 10:32
But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:

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Hebrews 11:36
Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—

Hebrews 11:38
of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

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James 1:7
For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

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James 2:21
Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

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James 2:15
And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

James 2:22
You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected.

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James 3:10
Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

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James 3:12
Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

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