Romans 5:3

Romans 5:3. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also:

Paul is going upstairs, as it were, - rising from one platform to another. There is enough of glory in Christ to wrap up all our troubles in; it makes the black white, and the dark bright.

Romans 5:3. Knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

A man who never suffers does not know what patience means; but trial works patience, yet not of itself. Trials work peevishness and murmuring and discontent; but grace brings sweet out of bitter, and - "tribulation worketh patience;" -