Profiting from Trials

My brethren, (A)count it all joy (B)when you fall into various trials, (C)knowing that the testing of your faith produces [a]patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be [b]perfect and complete, lacking nothing. (D)If any of you lacks wisdom, (E)let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and (F)it will be given to him. (G)But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;

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Footnotes

  1. James 1:3 endurance or perseverance
  2. James 1:4 mature

Their Faith in Christ

(A)We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, (B)since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of (C)your love for all the saints; because of the hope (D)which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel, which has come to you, (E)as it has also in all the world, and (F)is bringing forth [a]fruit, as it is also among you since the day you heard and knew (G)the grace of God in truth; as you also learned from (H)Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is (I)a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf, who also declared to us your (J)love in the Spirit.

Preeminence of Christ

(K)For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask (L)that you may be filled with (M)the knowledge of His will (N)in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 (O)that you may walk worthy of the Lord, (P)fully pleasing Him, (Q)being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the (R)knowledge of God; 11 (S)strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, (T)for all patience and longsuffering (U)with joy; 12 (V)giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of (W)the inheritance of the saints in the light.

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 1:6 NU, M add and growing

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