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For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.

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We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.

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36 Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.

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11 We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy,[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1:11 Or all the patience and endurance you need with joy.

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.

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17 For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!

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and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness,

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Such things were written in the Scriptures long ago to teach us. And the Scriptures give us hope and encouragement as we wait patiently for God’s promises to be fulfilled.

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28 And we know that God causes everything to work together[a] for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:28 Some manuscripts read And we know that everything works together.

We proudly tell God’s other churches about your endurance and faithfulness in all the persecutions and hardships you are suffering.

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He will give eternal life to those who keep on doing good, seeking after the glory and honor and immortality that God offers.

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God’s Discipline Proves His Love

12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.

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May the Lord lead your hearts into a full understanding and expression of the love of God and the patient endurance that comes from Christ.

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25 But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)

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