[a]My brethren, [b]count it exceeding joy, [c]when ye fall into divers tentations,

(A)[d]Knowing that the [e]trying of your faith bringeth forth patience,

[f]And let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.

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Footnotes

  1. James 1:2 The first place or part touching comfort in afflictions, wherein we ought not be cast down and be fainthearted, but rather rejoice and be glad.
  2. James 1:2 Seeing their condition was miserable in that scattering abroad, he doth well to begin as he doth.
  3. James 1:2 The first argument, because our faith is tried through afflictions: which ought to be most pure, for so it is behoovable for us.
  4. James 1:3 The second, Because patience, far passing and most excellent virtue, is by this means engendered in us.
  5. James 1:3 That wherewith your faith is tried, to wit, those manifold temptations.
  6. James 1:4 The third argument propounded in manner of an exhortation, that true and continual patience may be discerned from fained and for a time. The cross is as it were the instrument wherewith God doth polish and [re]fine us. Therefore the work and effect of afflictions, is the perfecting of us in Christ.

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