What Does Romans 5:3 Mean in the King James?
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The pressure does not merely surround you; it works into you the capacity to remain beneath it.
THE MEANING
The pressure you face is not empty: it works endurance into you, even while it hurts. This verse names what is being formed within the pressure without calling the pressure good.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that suffering is only wasted pain: the verse says that pressure is producing endurance.
THE ROOT
θλῖψις
thlipsis
GROWS FROM
θλίβω
thlibō
To press, squeeze, or crowd.
The word translated “tribulations” carries the image of pressure or squeezing. The verse makes that pressure part of the process: it works endurance into you, rather than marking a moment in which nothing is happening.
ALSO GROWS
thlibō: To press, squeeze, or afflict.
θλίβω
This verb supplies the physical image beneath tribulation: pressure that bears down.
synthlibō: To press together, crowd, or crush.
συνθλίβω
This intensified form shows how the same root can describe pressure closing in from around someone.
ὑπομονή
hypomonē
GROWS FROM
ὑπομένω
hypomenō
To remain under; endure.
The word translated “patience” is tied to ὑπομένω (hypomenō, remain under or endure), with μένω (menō, remain) at its center. It names an active staying power: the capacity to remain under pressure that tribulation itself works into you.
ALSO GROWS
hypomenō: To remain under, endure, or hold out.
ὑπομένω
This verb makes patience more than passive waiting; it is endurance while pressure is present.
menō: To remain, stay, or continue.
μένω
This root sense of remaining is held inside patience, showing what the pressure is shaping: the ability to stay.
THE PATTERN
Pressure can work endurance and understanding into the one who passes through it.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,THE THREAD
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;Romans 12:12 uses θλῖψις (thlipsis, pressure or tribulation) and a form of ὑπομένω (hypomenō, remain under or endure), the verb related to ὑπομονή (hypomonē, endurance). Romans 5:3 names endurance as pressure’s work; Romans 12:12 shows that endurance present within the pressure itself.
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