₁Now that we have been put right with God through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ₂He 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! ₃We also boast of our troubles, because we know that trouble produces endurance, ₄endurance brings God's approval, and his approval creates hope. ₅This hope does not disappoint us, for God has poured out his love into our hearts by means of the Holy Spirit, who is God's gift to us.