Count it all joy when you meet trials
James 1:2–4 — Meaning, Context and Bible Study
Scripture in WEBWorld English Bible — Protestant Edition
James 1:2–4 WEB
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.
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Context
James tells believers to see trials as a testing of faith that produces endurance and maturity.
Read it in its setting. James does not call suffering itself good; he speaks of what God can produce through it.