Jacques 1:3

3 Sachant que l'épreuve de votre foi produit la patience.

Jacques 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 ) .

Jacques 1:3 In-Context

1 Jacques, serviteur de Dieu et du Seigneur Jésus-Christ, aux douze tribus qui sont dispersées, salut!

2 Frères, regardez comme le sujet d'une parfaite joie les diverses tentations qui vous arrivent,

3 Sachant que l'épreuve de votre foi produit la patience.

4 Mais que la patience ait une efficacité parfaite, afin que vous soyez parfaits et accomplis, ne manquant en rien.

5 Et si quelqu'un de vous manque de sagesse, qu'il la demande à Dieu, qui donne à tous libéralement, sans reproche, et elle lui sera donnée.