Quotes related to James 1:2-4
What is at stake is a faith that can actually remain sustainable and meaningful because it listens to the challenges of the present as we follow the God who is always out ahead of us, ready to surprise us.
— Peter Enns
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
— Genesis 31:40
And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
— Genesis 41:52
So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.
— Numbers 21:6
Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
— Deuteronomy 8:2
These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
— Judges 3:1
“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.
— Ruth 1:20
“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
— Job 2:10
Then Job replied:
— Job 6:1
They are confounded because they had hoped; their arrival brings disappointment.
— Job 6:20
Then Job answered:
— Job 9:1
Then Job answered:
— Job 16:1