Romans 5:4

4 and patience, experience; and experience, hope;

Romans 5:4 Meaning and Commentary

Romans 5:4

And patience experience
As tribulations tend to exercise and increase patience, so patience being exercised and increased, enlarges the saints' stock and fund of experience; of the love and grace of God communicated to them at such seasons; of his faithfulness in fulfilling his promises; of his power in supporting them; and of their own frailty and weakness; and so are taught humility, thankfulness, and resignation to the will of God:

and experience, hope;
hope is a gift of God's grace, and is implanted in regeneration, but abounds, increases, and becomes more strong and lively by experience of the love, grace, mercy, power, and faithfulness of God.

Romans 5:4 In-Context

2 by whom we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and glory in hope of the glory of the sons of God.

3 And not only this, but we even glory in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation works patience;

4 and patience, experience; and experience, hope;

5 and the hope shall not be ashamed, because the love of God is poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given unto us.

6 For the Christ, when we were yet weak, in his time died for the ungodly.