James 1:3
knowing that the trying of your faith worketh endurance.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
In Context
2Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations;
4But let endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting in nothing.
Cross References
Romans 5:3And not only so, but we rejoice in afflictions also, knowing that affliction produceth endurance,
Romans 8:28We know moreover that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
2 Corinthians 4:17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us, in a higher and still higher degree, an everlasting weight of glory;
2 Thessalonians 1:4so that we ourselves glory in you among the churches of God, for your constancy and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions which ye endure;
Hebrews 10:36For ye have need of endurance; that, after ye have done the will of God, ye may receive what is promised.
1 Peter 1:7that the proof of your faith, much more precious than gold which perisheth, but is tried with fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the manifestation of Jesus Christ;
Matthew Henry on James 1:3-13
Necessity of Faith and Patience; Evil of Indecision. ( a. d. 61.) 2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea… Read the whole commentary →