James 1:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

James 1:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 5:3-4
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; …
Hebrews 10:36
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Colossians 1:11
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
1 Peter 1:7
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 2-12)

We now come to consider the matter of this epistle. In this paragraph we have the following things to be observed:— I. The suffering state of Christians in this world is represented, and that in a very instructive manner, if we attend to what is plainly and necessarily implied, together with what is fully expressed. 1. It is implied that troubles and afflictions may be the lot of the best Christia…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. the trying--the testing or proving of your faith, namely, by “divers temptations.” Compare Ro 5:3, tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience (in the original dokime, akin to dokimion, “trying,” here; there it is experience: here the “trying” or testing, whence experience flows). patience--The original implies more; persevering endurance and continuance (compare Lu 8:15).