Romans 5:3-5

Peace with God Through Faith

3 More than that, we f rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering g produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and h hope does not put us to shame, because God's love i has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

  1. Cross References
    Matthew 5:12
    Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
  2. Cross References
    Luke 21:19
    By your endurance you will gain your lives.
    James 1:3
    For you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 119:116
    Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to shame in my hope!
    Philippians 1:20
    As it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.
  4. Cross References
    Acts 2:17 - 18
    'And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
    Acts 2:33
    Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.
    Titus 3:6
    Whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior.
    Galatians 4:6
    And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!
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