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Yakobus 1:2

Saudara-saudaraku, anggaplah sebagai suatu kebahagiaan, apabila kamu jatuh ke dalam berbagai-bagai pencobaan,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Joy;   Temptation;   Scofield Reference Index - Test-Tempt;   Thompson Chain Reference - Temptation;   Tests, Spiritual;   The Topic Concordance - Faith/faithfulness;   Patience;   Trial;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Holiness;   Joy;   Temptation;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Tempt;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Guidance;   Joy;   Providence;   Satan;   Sorrow;   Testing;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Joy;   Temptation, Test;   Thankfulness, Thanksgiving;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Afflictions;   Temptation;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - James, the General Epistle of;   Matthew, the Gospel According to;   Peter, the Epistles of;   Salutation;   Satan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Affliction;   James, the Letter;   Joy;   Patience;   Suffering;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - James, Epistle of;   Peter, First Epistle of;   Temptation;   Text of the New Testament;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Cheerfulness ;   Evil;   James ;   James Epistle of;   Joy;   Lord's Prayer (Ii);   Temptation, Trial;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Temptation;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sa'tan;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Affliction;   Divers;   James, Epistle of;   Joy;   Regeneration;   Sirach, Book of;   Tempt;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for November 7;   Every Day Light - Devotion for December 11;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Saudara-saudaraku, anggaplah sebagai suatu kebahagiaan, apabila kamu jatuh ke dalam berbagai-bagai pencobaan,
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Hai saudara-saudaraku, apabila kamu jatuh ke dalam berbagai-bagai pencobaan, sifatkanlah semuanya itu kesukaan sahaja,

Contextual Overview

2 My brethren, count it all ioy whe ye fall into diuers temptations: 3 Knowyng (this) that the trying of your fayth worketh patience: 4 And let patience haue [her] perfect worke, that ye may be perfect & sounde, lackyng nothyng. 5 If any of you lacke wisdome, let him aske of God, that geueth to all men indifferentlie, and casteth no man in the teeth: and it shalbe geuen hym. 6 But let hym aske in fayth, nothyng waueryng: For he that wauereth, is like a waue of the sea, tost of the wynde, and caryed with violence. 7 Neither let that man thynke that he shall receaue any thyng of the Lorde. 8 A double mynded man, [is] vnstable in all his wayes. 9 Let the brother of lowe degree, reioyce in that he is exalted: 10 Agayne, the riche, in that he is made lowe: Because as the flowre of the grasse he shall passe away. 11 For the sunne hath rysen with heate, and the grasse hath withered, and his flowre hath fallen away, & the beautie of the fashion of it hath perished: So also shall the ryche man fade away in his wayes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

count: James 1:12, Matthew 5:10-12, Luke 6:22, Luke 6:23, Acts 5:41, Romans 8:17, Romans 8:18, Romans 8:35-37, 2 Corinthians 12:9, 2 Corinthians 12:10, Philippians 1:29, Philippians 2:17, Colossians 1:24, Hebrews 10:34, 1 Peter 4:13-16

divers: Hebrews 11:36-38, 1 Peter 1:6-8, 2 Peter 2:9, Revelation 2:10

Reciprocal: Judges 14:14 - Out of the eater 1 Kings 17:17 - the son of the woman Job 23:10 - he hath Proverbs 18:14 - spirit Proverbs 27:17 - so Proverbs 29:6 - but Ecclesiastes 7:3 - by Daniel 11:35 - to try Habakkuk 3:18 - I will rejoice Matthew 5:12 - Rejoice Mark 10:30 - with persecutions Luke 6:21 - ye that weep John 16:20 - your Acts 13:52 - were Acts 16:25 - sang Acts 20:19 - temptations Romans 5:3 - but we 2 Corinthians 1:7 - as ye 2 Corinthians 4:8 - yet 2 Corinthians 6:10 - sorrowful 2 Corinthians 7:4 - I am filled Philippians 2:18 - do Philippians 3:1 - rejoice Philippians 4:4 - alway Colossians 1:11 - unto Hebrews 11:17 - when James 1:13 - no man 1 Peter 4:16 - but Revelation 13:10 - Here

Cross-References

Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth [both] bud and hearbe apt to seede after his kynde, and tree yeeldyng fruite, whiche hath seede in it selfe, after his kynde.
Genesis 1:14
And God sayde: let there be lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen, that they may deuide the day and the nyght, and let them be for signes, & seasons, and for dayes, and yeres.
Job 26:7
He stretcheth out the noorth ouer the emptie place, and hangeth the earth vpon nothing.
Job 26:14
Lo, this is now a short summe of his wayes: but howe litle a portion heare we of hym? who can vnderstande the thunder of his power?
Psalms 33:6
By the worde of God are the heauens made: and all the hoastes of them by the breath of his mouth.
Isaiah 45:18
For thus saith the Lorde, Euen he that created heauen, the God that made the earth & fassioned it, and set it foorth, he dyd not make it for naught, but to be inhabited, euen I the Lorde, without whom there is none other.
Nahum 2:10
Sacking, resacking, rasing, a dissolued heart and collision of knees, sorow in all loynes also, and the faces of them all as blacke as a pot.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My brethren,.... Not only according to the flesh, he being a Jew as they were; but in a spiritual sense, they being born again of the same grace, belonging to the same family and household of faith, and having the same Father, and being all the children of God, by faith in Christ Jesus:

count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; not the temptations of Satan, or temptations to sin; for these cannot be matter of joy, but grief; these are fiery darts, and give a great deal of uneasiness and trouble; but afflictions and persecutions for the sake of the Gospel, which are so called here and elsewhere, because they are trials of the faith of God's people, and of other graces of the Spirit of God. God by these tempts his people, as he did Abraham, when he called him to sacrifice his son; he thereby tried his faith, fear, love, and obedience; so by afflictions, God tries the graces of his people; not that he might know them, for he is not ignorant of them, but that they might be made manifest to others; and these are "divers": many are the afflictions of the righteous; through much tribulation they must enter the kingdom; it is a great fight of afflictions which they endure, as these believers did; their trials came from different quarters; they were persecuted by their countrymen the Jews, and were distressed by the Gentiles, among whom they lived; and their indignities and reproaches were many; and their sufferings of different sorts, as confiscation of goods, imprisonment of body, banishment, scourgings, and death in various shapes: and these they "fall" into; not by chance, nor altogether at an unawares, or unexpectedly; but they fell into them through the wickedness and malice of their enemies, and did not bring them upon themselves through any crime or enormity they were guilty of: and when this was their case, the apostle exhorts them to count it all joy, or matter of joy, of exceeding great joy, even of the greatest joy; not that these afflictions were joyous in themselves, but in their circumstances, effects, and consequences; as they tried, and exercised, and improved the graces of the Spirit, and worked for their good, spiritual and eternal, and produced in them the peaceable fruit of righteousness; and as they were attended with the presence and Spirit of God, and of glory; and as they made for, and issued in the glory of God; and because of that great reward in heaven which would follow them; see Matthew 5:11. The Jews have a saying g,

"whoever rejoices in afflictions that come upon him, brings salvation to the world.''

g T. Bab. Taanith, fol. 8. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My brethren - Not brethren as Jews, but as Christians. Compare James 2:1.

Count it all joy - Regard it as a thing to rejoice in; a matter which should afford you happiness. You are not to consider it as a punishment, a curse, or a calamity, but as a fit subject of felicitation. Compare the notes at Matthew 5:12.

When ye fall into divers temptations - Oh the meaning of the word “temptations,” see the notes at Matthew 4:1. It is now commonly used in the sense of placing allurements before others to induce them to sin, and in this sense the word seems to be used in James 1:13-14 of this chapter. Here, however, the word is used in the sense of trials, to wit, by persecution, poverty, calamity of any kind. These cannot be said to be direct inducements or allurements to sin, but they try the faith, and they show whether he who is tried is disposed to adhere to his faith in God, or whether he will apostatize. They so far coincide with temptations, properly so called, as to test the religion of men. They differ from temptations, properly so called, in that they are not brought before the mind for the express purpose of inducing people to sin. In this sense it is true that God never tempts men, James 1:13-14. On the sentiment in the passage before us, see the notes at 1 Peter 1:6-7. The word “divers” here refers to the various kinds of trials which they might experience - sickness, poverty, bereavement, persecution, etc. They were to count it a matter of joy that their religion was subjected to anything that tried it. It is well for us to have the reality of our religion tested, in whatever way it may be done.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse James 1:2. Count it all joy — The word πειρασμος, which we translate temptation, signifies affliction, persecution, or trial of any kind; and in this sense it is used here, not intending diabolic suggestion, or what is generally understood by the word temptation.


 
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