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1 Peter 1:6

You are very glad about this, even though it is now necessary for you to feel sadness in many different troubles.

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In The King James Version

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

In Context

5You are protected by God's power through faith, for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last times.

7This is for the proving of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, even though it is tested by fire. This happens so that your faith will be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revealing of Jesus Christ.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:1Hannah prayed and said, 1 “My heart exults in Yahweh. 1 My horn is exalted in Yahweh. 1 My mouth boasts over my enemies, 1 because I rejoice in your salvation. 1

Psalms 9:14Oh, that I might proclaim all your praise. 1 In the gates of the daughter of Zion 1 I will rejoice in your salvation! 1

Psalms 35:10All my bones will say, “Yahweh, who is like you, 1 who rescues the oppressed from those who are too strong for them 1 and the poor and needy from those who try to rob them?” 1

Psalms 95:1Oh come, let us sing to Yahweh; 1 let us sing joyfully to the rock of our salvation. 1

Psalms 119:75I know, Yahweh, that your decrees are just, 1 and that in faithfulness you afflicted me. 1

Isaiah 61:3He has sent me—to give to those who mourn in Zion—to give them a turban instead of ashes, 1 oil of joy instead of mourning, a mantle of praise in place of a spirit of dullness, 1 to call them oaks of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified. 1

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 →

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