Tiago 1:3

3 pois vocês sabem que a prova da sua fé produz perseverança.

Tiago 1:3 Meaning and Commentary

James 1:3

Knowing this
By experience; as everyone that is trained up in the school of affliction does: the apostle appeals to the saints, to whom he writes, for the truth of what he was about to say; and which he gives as a reason why they should rejoice in afflictions, because it is a known fact,

that the trying of your faith worketh patience:
two things afflictions do when sanctified; one is, they try faith, the truth of it, and make it appear to be true, genuine, and precious, like gold tried in the fire; see ( 1 Peter 1:6 1 Peter 1:7 ) and the other is, that they produce patience: saints being inured to afflictions, become by degrees more patient under them; whence it is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth: this phrase may be understood, both of faith, which being tried by afflictions, produces patience; for where the one is in exercise, the other is also, and both are necessary under afflictive providences; and also of afflictions, which try faith, and being sanctified by the Spirit of God, work patience, which is a fruit of the Spirit; for otherwise the effect of them is impatience; and this agrees with the Apostle Paul in ( Romans 5:3 Romans 5:4 ) .

Tiago 1:3 In-Context

1 Tiago, servo de Deus e do Senhor Jesus Cristo,às doze tribos dispersas entre as nações:Saudações.

2 Meus irmãos, considerem motivo de grande alegria o fato de passarem por diversas provações,

3 pois vocês sabem que a prova da sua fé produz perseverança.

4 E a perseverança deve ter ação completa, a fim de que vocês sejam maduros e íntegros, sem que falte a vocês coisa alguma.

5 Se algum de vocês tem falta de sabedoria, peça-a a Deus, que a todos dá livremente, de boa vontade; e lhe será concedida.