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New King James Version

Romans 5:4

and perseverance, character; and character, hope.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Graces;   Holy Spirit;   Hope;   Patience;   Probation;   Resignation;   Righteousness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Christian Graces;   Fruit, Spiritual;   Fruitfulness-Unfruitfulness;   Graces, Christian;   The Topic Concordance - Experience;   Hope;   Patience;   Tribulation;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Holy Spirit, the Comforter, the;   Hope;   Patience;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Adam;   Justificiation;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Endurance;   Hope;   Joy;   Patience;   Persecution;   Perseverance;   Suffering;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Discipline;   Hope;   Perseverance;   Reconciliation;   Temptation, Test;   Thankfulness, Thanksgiving;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Imputation;   Intercession of Christ;   Joy;   Judgment, Last;   Law;   Man;   Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Justification;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Providence;   Romans, the Epistle to the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hope;   Joy;   Patience;   Romans, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Comfort;   Experience;   Grace;   Hope;   James, Epistle of;   Joy;   Person of Christ;   Romans, Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Abstinence;   Ethics;   Hope ;   Love;   Patience;   Paul (2);   Peace (2);   Perseverance;   Romans Epistle to the;   Sin (2);   Temptation, Trial;   Trust;   Unity;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Covenant, the New;   Exodus, Book of;   33 Patience Long-Suffering Forbearance;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Experience;   Galatians, Epistle to the;   Hope;   Patience;   Propitiation;   Reconcile;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - James, General Epistle of;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for September 25;   Every Day Light - Devotion for November 28;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope.
King James Version (1611)
And patience, experience: and experience, hope:
King James Version
And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
English Standard Version
and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
New American Standard Bible
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;
New Century Version
And patience produces character, and character produces hope.
Amplified Bible
and endurance, proven character (spiritual maturity); and proven character, hope and confident assurance [of eternal salvation].
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;
Legacy Standard Bible
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;
Berean Standard Bible
perseverance, character; and character, hope.
Contemporary English Version
And endurance builds character, which gives us a hope
Complete Jewish Bible
endurance produces character, and character produces hope;
Darby Translation
and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;
Easy-to-Read Version
And this patience is proof that we are strong. And this proof gives us hope.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And patience experience, and experience hope,
George Lamsa Translation
And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
Good News Translation
endurance brings God's approval, and his approval creates hope.
Lexham English Bible
and patient endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope,
Literal Translation
and patience works out proven character; and proven character, hope.
American Standard Version
and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope:
Bible in Basic English
And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:
Hebrew Names Version
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:
International Standard Version
endurance produces character, and character produces hope.James 1:12;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
and patience experience, [fn] and experience hope:
Murdock Translation
and patience, experience; and experience, hope:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Pacience profe, profe hope:
English Revised Version
and patience, probation; and probation, hope:
World English Bible
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
knowing that tribulation worketh patience, And patience experience, and experience hope;
Weymouth's New Testament
fortitude, ripeness of character; and ripeness of character, hope;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and pacience preuyng, and preuyng hope.
Update Bible Version
and steadfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope:
Webster's Bible Translation
And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
New English Translation
and endurance, character, and character, hope.
New Living Translation
And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.
New Life Bible
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.
New Revised Standard
and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, our endurance, a testing, and, our testing, hope,
Douay-Rheims Bible
And patience trial; and trial hope;
Revised Standard Version
and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
pacience bringeth experience experience bringeth hope.
Young's Literal Translation
and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
paciece bryngeth experiece, experiece bryngeth hope:
Mace New Testament (1729)
and probation, hope:
Simplified Cowboy Version
Endurance gives us an authentic cowboy character, and this character gives us the strength to trust in the hope of salvation.

Contextual Overview

1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have [fn] peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

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

Genesis 1:28
Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 5:1
1 Chronicles 1:1-4; Luke 3:36-38">[xr] This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
Genesis 5:3
And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
Genesis 5:7
After he begot Enosh, Seth lived eight hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:10
After he begot Cainan, Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and had sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:13
After he begot Mahalalel, Cainan lived eight hundred and forty years, and had sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:19
After he begot Enoch, Jared lived eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:22
After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:26
After he begot Lamech, Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:30
After he begot Noah, Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years, and had sons and daughters.

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.


 
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