3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
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And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; …
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
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.
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:
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…
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