Romans 5:4 — King James Version← Study notes
“And patience, experience; and experience, hope:”
Romans 5:4 — Greek Interlinear
Greek · Romans 5:48 words
ℹGreek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.
Church Fathers on Romans 5:4
“And patience experience, and experience hope; and hope makes not ashamed.” Tribulations, that is, are so far from confuting these hopes, that they even prove them. For before the things to come are realized, there is a very great fruit which tribulation has — patience; and the making of the man that is tried, experienced. And it contributes in some degree too to the things to come, for it gives hope a vigor within us, since there is nothing that so inclines a man to hope…
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