And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
James 1:2 - Wesley's New Testament 1755 My brethren, count it all joy, when ye fall into divers temptations, Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Consider it wholly joyful, my brethren, whenever you are enveloped in or encounter trials of any sort or fall into various temptations. American Standard Version (1901) Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations; Common English Bible My brothers and sisters, think of the various tests you encounter as occasions for joy. Catholic Public Domain Version My brothers, when you have fallen into various trials, consider everything a joy, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations; |
And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
This also is of God. For to you it is given, with regard to Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him:
Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh that which is behind of the sufferings of Christ for his body, which is the church:
For ye sympathized with my bonds, and received with joy the spoiling of your goods, knowing that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Happy is the man that endureth temptation: for when he hath been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
Behold, we count them happy that have endured. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord: for the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy.
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unrighteous to the day of judgment to be punished.
Fear none of those things which thou art about to suffer: behold the devil is about to cast some of you into prison that ye may be tried, and ye shall have affliction ten days: Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.