1. Now that we have been put right with God through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
2. He has brought us by faith into this experience of God's grace, in which we now live. And so we boast of the hope we have of sharing God's glory!
3. We also boast of our troubles, because we know that trouble produces endurance,
4. endurance brings God's approval, and his approval creates hope.