Romans 5:3-6
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
3 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.
4 And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of [a]character (approved faith and [b]tried integrity). And character [of this sort] produces [the habit of] [c]joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation.
5 Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us.
6 While we were yet in weakness [powerless to help ourselves], at the fitting time Christ died for (in behalf of) the ungodly.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Romans 5:4 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.
- Romans 5:4 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
- Romans 5:4 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
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