can bring offer us great incentive for considering them joy. In these verses, James describes a multistep process that begins with trials; in verse 3, he recasts them as a “testing of your faith,” which gives us more insight into precisely what he had in mind in verse 2 regarding considering trials all joy. Consider it What?: We might consider many things to be pure joy. James has structured this statement in a way that gives us time to think about these alternatives before learning what he