Romans 5:3 - The Message3-5 There’s more to come: We continue to shout our praise even when we’re hemmed in with troubles, because we know how troubles can develop passionate patience in us, and how that patience in turn forges the tempered steel of virtue, keeping us alert for whatever God will do next. In alert expectancy such as this, we’re never left feeling shortchanged. Quite the contrary—we can’t round up enough containers to hold everything God generously pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit! See the chapterMore versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 17693 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; See the chapterAmplified Bible - Classic Edition3 Moreover [let us also be full of joy now!] let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance. See the chapterAmerican Standard Version (1901)3 And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness; See the chapterCommon English Bible3 But not only that! We even take pride in our problems, because we know that trouble produces endurance, See the chapterCatholic Public Domain Version3 And not only that, but we also find glory in tribulation, knowing that tribulation exercises patience, See the chapter |