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¶ Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

Beloved {G27}, think it {G3579} not {G3361} strange {G3579} concerning the {G5213} fiery trial {G4451} which {G1722} is {G1096} to {G4314} try {G3986} you {G5213}, as {G5613} though some strange thing {G3581} happened {G4819} unto you {G5213}:

Dear friends, don’t regard as strange the fiery ordeal occurring among you to test you, as if something extraordinary were happening to you.

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you.

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto you:

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Cross-References

  • 2 Timothy 3:12 (42 votes)

    Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

  • 1 Peter 1:6 (39 votes)

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

  • 1 Peter 1:7 (39 votes)

    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:

  • 1 Peter 5:9 (35 votes)

    Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

  • 1 Thessalonians 3:2 (28 votes)

    And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:

  • 1 Thessalonians 3:4 (28 votes)

    For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

  • Daniel 11:35 (22 votes)

    And [some] of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make [them] white, [even] to the time of the end: because [it is] yet for a time appointed.