James 1:2 Cross References - Riverside

² Think it all joy, my brethren, when you fall into all sorts of trials,

¹⁰ "Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness! For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ¹¹ "Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and say every evil thing against you falsely for my sake! ¹² Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for your reward is great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

²² "Blessed are you when men hate you and when they shut you out and reproach you and cast out your name as evil because of the Son of Man! ²³ Rejoice on that day and leap for joy. For, indeed, your reward will be great in heaven. Just so their fathers treated the prophets.

⁴¹ but they went away from before the Council rejoicing because they were thought worthy to be put to shame for the Name.

¹⁷ And if children, we are also heirs — heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ, since we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him. ¹⁸ For I estimate that the sufferings of this present time amount to nothing in comparison with the glory that is to be revealed for us.

³⁵ Who shall separate us from Christ's love? Shall trial or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶ (As it is written, "For thy sake we are killed all the day. We are counted as sheep for slaughter.") ³⁷ On the contrary, in all these we more than conquer through him who loved us.

⁹ But he has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you; for power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly then will I boast in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may abide upon me. ¹⁰ Therefore I rejoice in weaknesses, in rough treatment, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

²⁹ because it has been graciously allowed you not only to believe in Christ but also to suffer for his sake,

¹⁷ But if I am poured out as a libation on your sacrificial offering of faith, I rejoice and share the joy of you all.

²⁴ Now I rejoice in what I suffer for your sake, and in my turn am filling up in my flesh what was lacking in the afflictions of Christ for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

³⁴ For you even suffered with the prisoners and accepted the plundering of your property with joy, knowing that you had a better and enduring possession.

³⁶ Still others had experience of mockings and floggings, yes, of chains and prisons. ³⁷ They were stoned, afflicted, sawn in two, murdered with the sword. They went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, distressed, maltreated. ³⁸ The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in caves and in holes in the earth.

¹² Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he has been tested he will gain the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

⁶ In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you are sorrowful in trials of many kinds, ⁷ so that your tested faith, much more precious than gold that perishes though tested by fire, may be found to your praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed, ⁸ whom you love though you have not seen him; in whom you have faith though now you do not see him, and you rejoice with unspeakable and glorious joy

¹³ But rejoice since to this extent you are sharing the sufferings of Christ, that when his glory is revealed you may rejoice and exult. ¹⁴ If you are reproached for the name of Christ you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. ¹⁵ No one of you must suffer as a murderer or as a thief or as a wrongdoer or as a meddler in other men's affairs. ¹⁶ But if he suffers as a Christian he should not be ashamed, but should glorify God by that name.

⁹ the Lord knows how to rescue the pious from trial and how to keep the wicked under punishment for the day of judgment, ¹⁰ Do not fear what you are soon to suffer. The Devil will soon cast some of you into prison so that you may be tested, and you will have distress ten days. Be faithful to death and I will give you the crown of life.