1 Peter 1:7
These prove that your trust in God is genuine, just as fire is used to prove if gold is genuine—even though that too can be destroyed—and your faith is more valuable than gold! In this way your trust in God will be recognized and you will receive praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ appears.
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6So be glad about this, even though you may be sad for a short while as you endure various trials.
Cross References
Numbers 5:28But if the woman has not made herself unclean by being unfaithful and is clean, she will not experience this punishment and she will still be able to have children.
Job 23:10Yet he always knows where I'm going. When he has proved me, I will come out shining like gold.
Psalms 66:10God, you have tested us, refining us like silver.
Proverbs 8:19The fruit I produce is better than gold, even pure gold, and my harvest is better than even the best silver.
Proverbs 17:3A crucible tests silver, and a furnace tests gold, but the Lord tests the attitude of mind.
Isaiah 48:10Look how I've refined you, but not like silver—I chose you in the furnace of trouble.
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 1:7-10
Privileges of Christians. ( a. d. 66.) 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 9 Receiving the end of your… Read the whole commentary →