Thematic Bible: What works patience
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Patience » What works patience
And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude, and fortitude character, and character, hope??5 a hope which never disappoints us. For through the Holy Spirit who has given to us, the "brimming river of the love of God" has overflowed in our hearts.
My brothers, when you are beset by various temptations, count it all joy, because you know that the testing of your faith is working out endurance.