TAT 139 Correlations
We have all read a verse or a passage from the Bible which reminded us of another passage or verse. Whenever I read the opening line of the New Testament found in James 1:2–4 I automatically think about two other passages, 1 Peter 1:7 and 2 Corinthians 4:16–18. When I read them one after another they need no further explanation, clarification, or teaching. Those three passages are listed below in consecutive order and read thusly:
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.