James 1:3

Amplified Bible

Be assured that the testing of your faith [through experience] produces endurance [leading to spiritual maturity, and inner peace].

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

King James Version (1611)
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience,

King James Version
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

English Standard Version
for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

New American Standard Bible
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

New Century Version
because you know that these troubles test your faith, and this will give you patience.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Berean Standard Bible
because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.

Contemporary English Version
You know that you learn to endure by having your faith tested.

Complete Jewish Bible
for you know that the testing of your trust produces perseverance.

Darby Translation
knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.

Easy-to-Read Version
You know that when your faith is tested, you learn to be patient in suffering.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Knowing that ye trying of your faith bringeth forth patience,

George Lamsa Translation
For you know that the trial of faith will increase your patience.

Good News Translation
for you know that when your faith succeeds in facing such trials, the result is the ability to endure.

Lexham English Bible
because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Literal Translation
knowing that the proving of your faith works patience.

American Standard Version
knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.

Bible in Basic English
Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope;

Hebrew Names Version
Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.

International Standard Version
because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.Romans 5:3;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
For you know that the proving of faith maketh you to possess patience;

Murdock Translation
For ye know, that the trial of [fn] faith, maketh you possess patience.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Knowyng (this) that the trying of your fayth worketh patience:

English Revised Version
Knowing that the proof of your faith worketh patience.

World English Bible
Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But let patience have it's perfect work,

Weymouth's New Testament
Be assured that the testing of your faith leads to power of endurance.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that the preuyng of youre feith worchith pacience;

Update Bible Version
Knowing that the proving of your faith works patience.

Webster's Bible Translation
Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

New English Translation
because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

New King James Version
knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.

New Living Translation
For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.

New Life Bible
You know these prove your faith. It helps you not to give up.

New Revised Standard
because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Taking note, that, the proving of your faith, worketh out endurance;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience

Revised Standard Version
for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
for as moche as ye knowe how that the tryinge of youre fayth bringeth pacience:

Young's Literal Translation
knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for as moche as ye knowe, how yt the tryinge of youre faith bringeth pacience:

Mace New Testament (1729)
that the bringing your faith to the test, produces constancy.

Simplified Cowboy Version
faith will be ever the stronger because of what ya went through.

Contextual Overview

²Consider it nothing but joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you fall into various trials. ³Be assured that the testing of your faith [through experience] produces endurance [leading to spiritual maturity, and inner peace].⁴And let endurance have its perfect result and do a thorough work, so that you may be perfect and completely developed [in your faith], lacking in nothing. ⁵If any of you lacks wisdom [to guide him through a decision or circumstance], he is to ask of [our benevolent] God, who gives to everyone generously and without rebuke or blame, and it will be given to him. ⁶But he must ask [for wisdom] in faith, without doubting [God's willingness to help], for the one who doubts is like a billowing surge of the sea that is blown about and tossed by the wind. ⁷For such a person ought not to think or expect that he will receive anything [at all] from the Lord, ⁸being a double-minded man, unstable and restless in all his ways [in everything he thinks, feels, or decides]. ⁹Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position [as a born-again believer, called to the true riches and to be an heir of God]; ¹⁰and the rich man is to glory in being humbled [by trials revealing human frailty, knowing true riches are found in the grace of God], for like the flower of the grass he will pass away. ¹¹For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; its flower falls off and its beauty fades away; so too will the rich man, in the midst of his pursuits, fade away.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that: Romans 5:3, Romans 5:4, Romans 8:28, 2 Corinthians 4:17

patience: Romans 2:7, Romans 8:25, Romans 15:4, Colossians 1:11, 2 Thessalonians 1:4, 2 Thessalonians 3:5, Hebrews 10:36, Hebrews 12:1, 2 Peter 1:6

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 8:2 - prove thee Luke 21:19 - General Romans 12:12 - patient 1 Thessalonians 1:3 - and patience 1 Peter 1:7 - the trial 1 Peter 4:13 - rejoice 2 Peter 1:20 - Knowing Revelation 2:3 - hast patience

Cross-References

Job 36:30
"Behold, He spreads His lightning around Him [against the dark clouds], And He covers the depths of the sea.

Job 38:19
"Where is the way where light dwells? And as for darkness, where is its place,

Psalms 33:6
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made, And all their host by the breath of His mouth.

Psalms 33:9
For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.

Psalms 97:11
Light is sown [like seed] for the righteous and illuminates their path, And [irrepressible] joy [is spread] for the upright in heart [who delight in His favor and protection].

Psalms 104:2
[You are the One] who covers Yourself with light as with a garment, Who stretches out the heavens like a tent curtain,

Psalms 118:27
The LORD is God, and He has given us light [illuminating us with His grace and freedom and joy]. Bind the festival sacrifices with cords to the horns of the altar.

Psalms 148:5
Let them praise the name of the LORD, For He commanded and they were created.

Isaiah 45:7
The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing peace and creating disaster; I am the LORD who does all these things.

Isaiah 60:19
"The sun will no longer be your light by day, Nor shall the bright glow of the moon give light to you, But the LORD will be an everlasting light for you; And your God will be your glory and splendor.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Knowing this,.... By experience; as everyone that is trained up in the school of affliction does: the apostle appeals to the saints, to whom he writes, for the truth of what he was about to say; and which he gives as a reason why they should rejoice in afflictions, because it is a known fact,

that the trying of your faith worketh patience: two things afflictions do when sanctified; one is, they try faith, the truth of it, and make it appear to be true, genuine, and precious, like gold tried in the fire; see 1 Peter 1:6 and the other is, that they produce patience: saints being inured to afflictions, become by degrees more patient under them; whence it is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth: this phrase may be understood, both of faith, which being tried by afflictions, produces patience; for where the one is in exercise, the other is also, and both are necessary under afflictive providences; and also of afflictions, which try faith, and being sanctified by the Spirit of God, work patience, which is a fruit of the Spirit; for otherwise the effect of them is impatience; and this agrees with the Apostle Paul in Romans 5:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience - Patience is one of the fruits of such a trial, and the grace of patience is worth the trial which it may cost to procure it. This is one of the passages which show that James was acquainted with the writings of Paul. See the Introduction, Section 5. The sentiment expressed here is found in Romans 5:3. See the notes at that verse. Paul has carried the sentiment out farther, and shows that tribulation produces other effects than patience. James only asks that patience may have its perfect work, supposing that every Christian grace is implied in this.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse James 1:3. The trying of your faith — Trials put religion, and all the graces of which it is composed to proof; the man that stands in such trials gives proof that his religion is sound, and the evidence afforded to his own mind induces him to take courage, bear patiently, and persevere.