NEW TESTAMENT

James 1:2

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Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

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Verse 2. Into divers temptations. The word temptations, in this epistle, is sometimes taken for trials by afflictions or persecutions, as in this place; sometimes for a tempting, enticing, or drawing others into sin. Witham.

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The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

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