James 1:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

My brethren - often in James, marking community of nation and of faith.

All joy - cause for the highest joy (Grotius). Nothing but joy. Count all "divers temptations" to be each matter of joy (Bengel).

Fall into - unexpectedly, so as to be encompassed by them х peripeseete (G4045)].

Temptations - not allurements to sin, but trials which test and purify the Christian character. Some to whom James writes were "sick," or otherwise "afflicted" (James 5:13). Every possible trial to the child of God is a masterpiece of strategy of the Captain of his salvation for his good.

James 1:2

2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;a