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Romans 5:4
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endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope.
And patience, experience: and experience, hope:
And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;
And patience produces character, and character produces hope.
and endurance, proven character (spiritual maturity); and proven character, hope and confident assurance [of eternal salvation].
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;
perseverance, character; and character, hope.
And endurance builds character, which gives us a hope
endurance produces character, and character produces hope;
and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;
And this patience is proof that we are strong. And this proof gives us hope.
And patience experience, and experience hope,
And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
endurance brings God's approval, and his approval creates hope.
and patient endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope,
and patience works out proven character; and proven character, hope.
and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope:
And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:
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and patience experience, [fn] and experience hope:
and patience, experience; and experience, hope:
Pacience profe, profe hope:
and patience, probation; and probation, hope:
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:
knowing that tribulation worketh patience, And patience experience, and experience hope;
fortitude, ripeness of character; and ripeness of character, hope;
and pacience preuyng, and preuyng hope.
and steadfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope:
And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
and endurance, character, and character, hope.
and perseverance, character; and character, hope.
And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.
When we have learned not to give up, it shows we have stood the test. When we have stood the test, it gives us hope.
and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
And, our endurance, a testing, and, our testing, hope,
And patience trial; and trial hope;
and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
pacience bringeth experience experience bringeth hope.
and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;
paciece bryngeth experiece, experiece bryngeth hope:
and probation, hope:
Endurance gives us an authentic cowboy character, and this character gives us the strength to trust in the hope of salvation.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
patience: Romans 15:4, 2 Corinthians 1:4-6, 2 Corinthians 4:8-12, 2 Corinthians 6:9, 2 Corinthians 6:10, James 1:12, 1 Peter 1:6, 1 Peter 1:7, 1 Peter 5:10
and experience: Joshua 10:24, Joshua 10:25, 1 Samuel 17:34-37, Psalms 27:2, Psalms 27:3, Psalms 42:4, Psalms 42:5, Psalms 71:14, Psalms 71:18-24, 2 Corinthians 4:8-10, 2 Timothy 4:16-18
Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 7:3 - by Romans 8:28 - we know Romans 12:12 - patient Romans 15:13 - abound 1 Corinthians 13:13 - hope 2 Corinthians 6:4 - in much Ephesians 1:18 - is 2 Timothy 1:12 - I am Titus 1:2 - hope Hebrews 10:36 - ye have James 1:3 - that 1 Peter 1:3 - unto 2 Peter 1:6 - patience 1 John 3:3 - every Revelation 1:9 - in the Revelation 2:3 - hast patience
Cross-References
This is the family tree of the human race: When God created the human race, he made it godlike, with a nature akin to God. He created both male and female and blessed them, the whole human race.
When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son who was just like him, his very spirit and image, and named him Seth. After the birth of Seth, Adam lived another 800 years, having more sons and daughters. Adam lived a total of 930 years. And he died.
God blessed Noah and his sons: He said, "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill the Earth! Every living creature—birds, animals, fish—will fall under your spell and be afraid of you. You're responsible for them. All living creatures are yours for food; just as I gave you the plants, now I give you everything else. Except for meat with its lifeblood still in it—don't eat that.
When Arphaxad was thirty-five years old, he had Shelah. After Arphaxad had Shelah, he lived 403 more years and had other sons and daughters.
Don't you see that children are God 's best gift? the fruit of the womb his generous legacy? Like a warrior's fistful of arrows are the children of a vigorous youth. Oh, how blessed are you parents, with your quivers full of children! Your enemies don't stand a chance against you; you'll sweep them right off your doorstep.
Make our sons in their prime like sturdy oak trees, Our daughters as shapely and bright as fields of wildflowers. Fill our barns with great harvest, fill our fields with huge flocks; Protect us from invasion and exile— eliminate the crime in our streets.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And patience experience,.... As tribulations tend to exercise and increase patience, so patience being exercised and increased, enlarges the saints' stock and fund of experience; of the love and grace of God communicated to them at such seasons; of his faithfulness in fulfilling his promises; of his power in supporting them; and of their own frailty and weakness; and so are taught humility, thankfulness, and resignation to the will of God:
and experience, hope; hope is a gift of God's grace, and is implanted in regeneration, but abounds, increases, and becomes more strong and lively by experience of the love, grace, mercy, power, and faithfulness of God.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And patience, experience - Patient endurance of trial produces experience. The word rendered “experience” (δοκιμήν dokimēn) means trial, testing, or that thorough examination by which we ascertain the quality or nature of a thing, as when we test a metal by fire, or in any other way, to ascertain that it is genuine. It also means approbations, or the result of such a trial; the being approved, and accepted as the effect of a trying process. The meaning is, that long afflictions borne patiently show a Christian what he is; they test his religion, and prove that it is genuine. Afflictions are often sent for this purpose, and patience in the midst of them shows that the religion which can sustain them is from God.
And experience, hope - The result of such long trial is to produce hope. They show that religion is genuine; that it is from God; and not only so, but they direct the mind onward to another world; and sustain the soul by the prospect of a glorious immortality there. The various steps and stages of the benefits of afflictions are thus beautifully delineated by the apostle in a manner which accords with the experience of all the children of God.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Romans 5:4. And patience, experience — δοκιμεν, Full proof, by trial, of the truth of our religion, the solidity of our Christian state, and the faithfulness of our God. In such cases we have the opportunity of putting our religion to the test; and, by every such test, it receives the deeper sterling stamp. The apostle uses here also a metaphor taken from the purifying, refining, and testing of silver and gold.
Experience, hope — For we thus calculate, that he who has supported us in the past will support us in those which may yet come; and as we have received so much spiritual profiting by means of the sufferings through which we have already passed, we may profit equally by those which are yet to come: and this hope prevents us from dreading coming trials; we receive them as means of grace, and find that all things work together for good to them that love God.
