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Jas 1:3 King James Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
the trying--the testing or proving of your faith, namely, by "divers temptations." Compare Rom 5:3, tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience (in the original dokime, akin to dokimion, "trying," here; there it is experience: here the "trying" or testing, whence experience flows).

patience--The original implies more; persevering endurance and continuance (compare Luk 8:15).
 
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15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: