Romans Chapter 5 verse 3 Holy Bible
And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;
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And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;
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And not only [that], but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance;
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And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
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Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;
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And not only `so', but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;
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Romans 5 : 3 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 3-5. - And not only so, but we glory in tribulations (or, our tribulations) also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Ghost which is given to us. The peace, the joy, the hope, that come of faith might be supposed unable to stand against the facts of this present life, in which, to those first believers, only peculiar tribulations might seem to follow from their faith. Not so, says the apostle; nay, their very tribulations tend to confirm our hope, and so even in them we also glory. For we perceive how they serve for our probation now: they test our endurance; and proved endurance increases hope. And this hope does not shame us in the end, as being baseless and without fulfilment; for our inward experience of the love of God assures us of the contrary, and keeps it ever alive. The word δοκιμὴ ("experience," Authorized Version) means properly "proof," and is so translated elsewhere. The idea is that tribulations test, and endurance under them proves, the genuineness of faith; and approved faithfulness strengthens hope (cf. Matthew 24:13; Mark 13:13, "He that endureth (ὑπομείνας, corresponding to ὑπομονὴν here) to the end, the same shall be saved "). By "the love of God" is meant rather God's love to us than ours to God. What follows in explanation requires this sense. Of course, it kindles answering love in ourselves (cf. "We love God, because he first loved us"); but the idea here is that of God's own love, the sense of which we experience, flooding our hearts with itself through the gift of the Holy Spirit. It may be observed that, though assurance of the fulfilment of our hope is here made to rest on inward feeling, yet this is legitimately convincing to those who do so feel. As in many other matters, so especially in religion, it is internal consciousness that carries the strongest conviction with it, and induces certitude. The verses that come next set forth the grounds of our sense of God's exceeding love to us.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) But much more than this. The Christian's glorying is not confined to the future; it embraces the present as well. It extends even to what would naturally be supposed to be the very opposite of a ground for glorying--to the persecutions that we have to undergo as Christians. (Comp. especially Matthew 5:10; Matthew 5:12, "Blessed are the persecuted;" 2Corinthians 11:30; 2Corinthians 12:9-10, "glorying in infirmities;" Acts 5:41, "rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame;" 1Peter 4:12-13; "think not the fiery trial strange, but rejoice.") Attention has here been called to Bacon's aphorism, "Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity of the New." This is a very profound side of the Christian revelation. . . .
