Knowing (ειδοτες). Second perfect participle of ειδον (οιδα), giving the reason for the previous exhortation to glory in tribulati…

And patience, experience. Patient endurance of trial produces experience. The word rendered experience (dokimēn) means trial<…

Experience. This is “Approvedness,” the quality of being tried and approved. The result of patient endurance is to test, confirm, …

Knowing that tribulation works patience; and patience, and experience, hope: and hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad…

The word “rejoice,” used to characterize the hope of the Christian for participating in the glory yet to be revealed (v.2), now carries over to ano…

Patience, probation, etc. James, adopting a similar gradation, seems to follow a different order, for he says that patience proce…

And patience experience
As tribulations tend to exercise and increase patience, so patience being exercised and incr…

A blessed change takes place in the sinner's state when he becomes a true believer, whatever he has been. Being justified by faith, he has peace wi…

1. After showing the need for Christ’s grace—because without it, neither knowledge of the truth benefited the Gentiles, nor did circumcision…