“Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.”
Paul wrote Romans from Corinth around 57 AD — not as an abstraction but as a man who had been imprisoned, beaten, shipwrecked, abandoned, and rejected. He earned the right to speak about suffering. His claim here is not that suffering is good in itself, but that it produces a specific sequence: endurance first.
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