These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.
Commentaries
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The proof of your faith (το δοκιμιον υμων της πιστεως). The identical phrase in Jas 1:3 and probably derived from there by Peter. …
Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes
That the trial of your faith. The putting of your religion to the test, and showing what is its real nature. (See the notes on James 1:3, …
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
That the trial of your faith.—This depends grammatically on “having been grieved.” The purpose of God’s providence in sen…
Charles Spurgeon
CharlesSpurgeon
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
Expositor'sBible Commentary
When gold is refined, its impurities are removed by a fiery process. Though extremely durable, it belongs to the perishing world-order. Faith, whic…
John Calvin
JohnCalvin
Much more precious than of gold. The argument is from the lesser to the greater. For if gold, a corruptible metal, is considered so valuab…
John Gill
JohnGill
That the trial of your faith
This is the principal end which God has in afflictive providences, to try the faith of …
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
This epistle is addressed to believers in general, who are strangers in every city or country where they live, and are scattered through the nation…
A.T. Robertson
A.T.Robertson