The crown of life. Paul, will use the expression in 2 Timothy 4:8, as the crown of righteousness. It is the same thing. It simply means that God, by grace, awards us the final part of the inheritance, and brings us into that heavenly glory that he has prepared for us that we shall receive at death. And one day we all together enter into the inheritance at the return of Christ and the resurrection of our bodies. But God has appointed that entrance through our trials.1
Joseph A. Pipa
12 Heureux l'homme qui supporte patiemment la tentation; car, après avoir été éprouvé, il recevra la couronne de vie, que le Seigneur a promise à ceux qui l'aiment.