“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:”
These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed — the purpose-clause establishes that trials function to authenticate faith's genuineness (dokimion, approved/proven quality). The simile comparing faith to gold refined by fire suggests that testing purifies faith of impurity, increasing its value. The eschatological revelation (apokalypsis) of Christ occasions the praise (epainos), glory (doxa), and honor (timē) that vindicate the tested believer.
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