1 Peter 1:6

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐν ᾧ ἀγαλλιᾶσθε, ὀλίγον ἄρτι, εἰ δέον ἐστὶν, λυπηθέντες ἐν ποικίλοις πειρασμοῖς:

Transliteration

In which you agalliasthe, oligon arti, if deon it is, having been lypēthentes by poikilois peirasmois:

Grammar Details

• *agalliasthe*: present, middle/passive, indicative, 2nd person, plural - ongoing action
• *oligon*: accusative, neuter, singular - extent/degree
• *arti*: adverb - temporal
• *deon*: present, active, participle, nominative, neuter, singular - condition
• *lypēthentes*: aorist, passive, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - completed action
• *poikilois*: dative, masculine, plural - attributive adjective
• *peirasmois*: dative, masculine, plural - means/instrument

Word Meanings

• *agalliasthe*: rejoice greatly/exult/be overjoyed
• *oligon*: little/brief/small
• *arti*: now/at present/just now
• *deon*: necessary/proper/fitting
• *lypēthentes*: having been grieved/distressed/made sorrowful
• *poikilois*: various/diverse/manifold
• *peirasmois*: trials/tests/temptations

Referenced Verses

• Jas 1:2 : 2 ¶ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
• Rom 5:2 : 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
• Rom 12:12 : 12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
• Isa 61:3 : 3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
• 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 ¶ But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle [you].
• Matt 5:12 : 12 ‹Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great› [is] ‹your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.›
• Matt 11:28 : 28 ‹Come unto me, all› [ye] ‹that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.›
• Ps 34:19 : 19 Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
• 1 Sam 2:1 : 1 ¶ And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
• Job 9:27-28 : 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]: 28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
• Isa 61:10 : 10 ¶ I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh [himself] with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth [herself] with her jewels.
• Ps 95:1 : 1 ¶ O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
• Ps 119:28 : 28 ¶ My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
• Luke 10:20 : 20 ‹Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.›
• John 16:22 : 22 ‹And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.›
• John 16:33 : 33 ‹These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.›
• Acts 14:22 : 22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, [and] exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
• 1 Cor 4:9-9 : 9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. 10 We [are] fools for Christ's sake, but ye [are] wise in Christ; we [are] weak, but ye [are] strong; ye [are] honourable, but we [are] despised. 11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; 12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: 13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, [and are] the offscouring of all things unto this day.
• Rom 5:11 : 11 And not only [so], but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
• Isa 12:2-3 : 2 Behold, God [is] my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH [is] my strength and [my] song; he also is become my salvation. 3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
• 1 Pet 4:12-13 : 12 ¶ Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
• Rom 9:2 : 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
• Jas 1:9 : 9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
• Jas 4:9 : 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
• 1 Pet 1:7-8 : 7 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: 8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see [him] not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
• 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 ¶ But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
• 2 Cor 4:7-9 : 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 8 ¶ [We are] troubled on every side, yet not distressed; [we are] perplexed, but not in despair; 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
• 2 Cor 4:17 : 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory;
• 2 Cor 6:10 : 10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things.
• 2 Cor 11:23-27 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I [am] more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26 [In] journeyings often, [in] perils of waters, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils by [mine own] countrymen, [in] perils by the heathen, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren; 27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
• 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 And he said unto me, ‹My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.› Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
• Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
• Phil 2:26 : 26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
• Phil 3:3 : 3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
• Phil 4:4 : 4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: [and] again I say, Rejoice.
• 1 Thess 1:6 : 6 ¶ And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
• Heb 11:35-38 : 35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: 36 And others had trial of [cruel] mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: 37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; 38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and [in] mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the earth.
• Heb 12:7-9 : 7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. 9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness. 11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
• Matt 26:37 : 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
• Luke 1:47 : 47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
• Luke 2:10 : 10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
• Ps 119:75 : 75 ¶ I know, O LORD, that thy judgments [are] right, and [that] thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
• Lam 3:32-33 : 32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. 33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
• Ps 9:14 : 14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
• Ps 35:10 : 10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who [is] like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
• Ps 69:20 : 20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none.