1 Peter 1:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

In which you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials:

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  • Jas 1:2 : 2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various trials;
  • Rom 5:2 : 2 Through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
  • Rom 12:12 : 12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
  • Isa 61:3 : 3 To appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give 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 has called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
  • Matt 5:12 : 12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
  • Ps 34:19 : 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivers him out of them all.
  • 1 Sam 2:1 : 1 And Hannah prayed and said, My heart rejoices in the LORD; my strength is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over my enemies because I rejoice in your salvation.
  • Job 9:27-28 : 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and console myself: 28 I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that You will 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 has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
  • Ps 95:1 : 1 O come, let us sing to the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
  • Ps 119:28 : 28 My soul melts from heaviness; strengthen me according to Your word.
  • Luke 10:20 : 20 Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you; but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.
  • John 16:22 : 22 And now you have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
  • John 16:33 : 33 I have spoken these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world, you will have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 Strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying that we must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.
  • 1 Cor 4:9-9 : 9 For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honored, but we are despised. 11 Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless. 12 And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it. 13 Being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.
  • Rom 5:11 : 11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
  • 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 has become my salvation. 3 Therefore with joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation.
  • 1 Pet 4:12-13 : 12 Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to test you, as though some strange thing happened to you: 13 But rejoice, since you are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy.
  • Rom 9:2 : 2 That I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart.
  • Jas 1:9 : 9 Let the brother of low position rejoice in that he is lifted up;
  • Jas 4:9 : 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
  • 1 Pet 1:7-8 : 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ: 8 Whom having not seen you love; in whom, though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
  • 2 Cor 4:7-9 : 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence 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 carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also might be made manifest in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
  • 2 Cor 4:17 : 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
  • 2 Cor 6:10 : 10 As sorrowful, yet always 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 labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often. 24 From the Jews five times I received forty lashes minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26 In journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 27 In weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
  • 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast 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 I am strong.
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  • Phil 2:26 : 26 For he longed for you all, and was distressed, because you had heard that he was sick.
  • Phil 3:3 : 3 For we are the circumcision, who 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 always: and again I say, Rejoice.
  • 1 Thess 1:6 : 6 And you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit:
  • Heb 11:35-38 : 35 Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. 36 Still others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, 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 mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.
  • Heb 12:7-9 : 7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastisement, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we respected them: shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but he for our benefit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. 11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful: nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
  • Matt 26:37 : 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very distressed.
  • Luke 1:47 : 47 And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.
  • Luke 2:10 : 10 And the angel said to them, Do not fear, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy, which will be to all people.
  • Ps 119:75 : 75 I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are right, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
  • Lam 3:32-33 : 32 But though He causes grief, yet He will show compassion according to the multitude of His mercies. 33 For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.
  • Ps 9:14 : 14 That I may declare all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in your salvation.
  • Ps 35:10 : 10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him, yes, the poor and the needy from him who plunders him?
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 Reproach has 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.

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