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Key Bible Verses — Important Scriptures to Read and Understand
Important passages from Genesis to Revelation, each shown in full in your chosen Bible version, with where it comes from and what it means in its setting.
Scripture in WEBWorld English Bible — Protestant Edition
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17For even though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food, the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls, 18yet I will rejoice in the LORD. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation! Though the fig tree does not blossom
Habakkuk ends his book resolving to rejoice in God even if crops and flocks fail, after hearing that judgement is coming.
2Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, 3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. Count it all joy when you meet trials
James tells believers to see trials as a testing of faith that produces endurance and maturity.