Verse 4

And endurance produces character, and character produces hope.

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  • Jas 1:12 : 12 Blessed is the one who endures trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
  • Ps 42:4-5 : 4 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long, 'Where is your God?' 5 These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the celebrating crowd.
  • Ps 71:14 : 14 But as for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more.
  • Ps 71:18-24 : 18 Even when I am old and my hair turns gray, O God, do not forsake me, until I declare your power to the next generation, your mighty acts to all who are to come. 19 Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. Who is like you, O God? 20 Though you have shown me many troubles and hardships, you will revive me again. From the depths of the earth, you will bring me up again. 21 You will increase my honor and comfort me once more. 22 I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God; I will sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel. 23 My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to you—I, whom you have redeemed. 24 My tongue will proclaim your righteousness all day long, for those who sought to harm me have been put to shame and confusion.
  • 2 Cor 1:4-6 : 4 who comforts us in all our troubles so that we may be able to comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. 6 If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces patient endurance of the same sufferings we also endure.
  • 2 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10 We always carry in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed in our body. 11 For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal bodies. 12 So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
  • 2 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 as unknown, yet well-known; as dying, yet behold, we live; as disciplined, but not put to death; 10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.
  • 2 Tim 4:16-18 : 16 At my first defense, no one stood by me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be counted against them. 17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fully made and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the lion's mouth. 18 The Lord will rescue me from every evil work and will bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
  • 1 Pet 1:6-7 : 6 In this you rejoice greatly, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more valuable than gold that perishes though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 But the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered for a little while, will Himself restore, establish, strengthen, and uphold you.
  • Josh 10:24-25 : 24 When they brought out these kings to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the commanders of the warriors who had gone with him, 'Come forward and put your feet on the necks of these kings.' So they came forward and placed their feet on their necks. 25 Then Joshua said to them, 'Do not be afraid or discouraged. Be strong and courageous, for this is what the LORD will do to all the enemies you fight against.'
  • 1 Sam 17:34-37 : 34 David said to Saul, 'Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep. Whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,' 35 'I went after it, struck it, and rescued the lamb from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its mane, struck it, and killed it.' 36 'Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God.' 37 David added, 'The LORD who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.' Saul said to David, 'Go, and may the LORD be with you.'
  • Ps 27:2-3 : 2 When evildoers come against me to devour my flesh, my adversaries and my enemies, they stumble and fall. 3 Though an army encamps against me, my heart will not be afraid; though war rises against me, in this I will be confident.
  • Rom 15:4 : 4 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.