Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
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James 1:1-5
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown (1871) (public domain).
the trying--the testing or proving of your faith, namely, by "divers temptations." Compare Rom 5:3, tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience (in the original dokime, akin to dokimion, "trying," here; there it is experience: here the "trying" or testing, whence experience flows). patience--The original implies more; persevering endurance and continuance (compare Luk 8:15).
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And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Authorship: the book itself or Christian tradition. Approximate dates, as in Carson and Moo, An Introduction to the New Testament, and Longman and Dillard, An Introduction to the Old Testament.