1 Peter 1:6 — Community Reflections

1 PETER 1:6 — KING JAMES VERSION 1

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

In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials — the imperative to rejoice (agalliaomai, exult/leap for joy) stands in tension with present suffering, yet Paul's qualification 'though now for a little while' establishes the trials as temporary and limited in duration. The 'various trials' (poikilos peirasmoi) test faith precisely because they are diverse and unpredictable, yet their transience is assured.

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