James 1:2 (BSB)

Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,

From James 1. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on James 1:2

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on James 1:2: 2 All joy. The first exhortation is, to bear trials with a cheerful mind. And it was especially necessary at that time to comfort the Jews, almost overwhelmed as they were with troubles. For the very name of the nation was so infamous, that they were hated and despised by all people wherever they went; and their condition as Christians rendered them still more miserable...
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on James 1:2-12: We now come to consider the matter of this epistle. In this paragraph we have the following things to be observed: - I. The suffering state of Christians in this world is represented, and that in a very instructive manner, if we attend to what is plainly and necessarily implied, together with what is fully expressed. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on James 1:2: 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...
• Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on James 1:2: Verse 2. My brethren. Not brethren as Jews, but as Christians. Compare . 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. . When ye fall into divers temptations. On the meaning of the word temptations, .