various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. But endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing. Notice the sequence: Various trials come to test our faith. The testing of our faith produces endurance and perseverance, and that results in maturity. We see the same process outlined by the apostle Paul in Romans 5: We also rejoice in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance, endurance produces proven