NT Allusions to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

 

testament of joseph

 

 1.      7.8:  For if anyone is subjected to the passion of desire and is enslaved by it, as she was, even when he hears something good bearing on that passion he receives it as aiding his wicked desire.

          Rom 1.26: For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural

 2.      8.5:  When I was in fetters, the Egyptian woman was overtaken with grief.  She came and heard the report how I gave thanks to the Lord and sang praise in the house of darkness, and how I rejoiced with cheerful voice, glorifying my God, because through her trumped-up charge I was set free from this Egyptian woman.

          Ac 16.23, 25:  After they had given them a severe flogging, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailor to keep them securely.  ....  About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

 3.      10.1:  So you see, my children, how great are the things that patience and prayer with fasting accomplish.

          Rom 5.3: And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance

          Jas 1.3: because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance