1 Peter 1:6
in which you are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in various trials,
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1 Samuel 2:1And Hannah prays and says: “My heart has exulted in YHWH, || My horn has been high in YHWH, || My mouth has been large over my enemies, || For I have rejoiced in Your salvation.
Psalms 9:14So that I recount all Your praise, || In the gates of the daughter of Zion. I rejoice on Your salvation.
Psalms 35:10All my bones say, “YHWH, who is like You, || Delivering the poor from the [one] stronger than he, || And the poor and needy from his plunderer.”
Psalms 95:1Come, we sing to YHWH, || We shout to the rock of our salvation.
Psalms 119:75I have known, O YHWH, || That Your judgments [are] righteous, || And [in] faithfulness You have afflicted me.
Isaiah 61:3To appoint to mourners in Zion, || To give to them beauty instead of ashes, || The oil of joy instead of mourning, || A covering of praise for a faded spirit, || And He is calling to them, Trees of righteousness, || The planting of YHWH—to be beautified.”
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 1:4-6
Privileges of Christians. ( a. d. 66.) 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. We come now to the body of the epistle, which begins with, I. A congratulation of… Read the whole commentary →