Verse 12

Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Thess 3:2-4 : 2 and did send Timotheus -- our brother, and a ministrant of God, and our fellow-workman in the good news of the Christ -- to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith, 3 that no one be moved in these tribulations, for yourselves have known that for this we are set, 4 for even when we were with you, we said to you beforehand, that we are about to suffer tribulation, as also it did come to pass, and ye have known `it';
  • 2 Tim 3:12 : 12 and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,
  • 1 Pet 1:6-7 : 6 in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials, 7 that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
  • 1 Pet 5:9 : 9 whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.
  • Dan 11:35 : 35 And some of the teachers do stumble for refining by them, and for purifying, and for making white -- till the end of the time, for `it is' yet for a time appointed.
  • 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 No temptation hath taken you -- except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear `it'.
  • 1 Cor 3:13 : 13 of each the work shall become manifest, for the day shall declare `it', because in fire it is revealed, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire shall prove;
  • Isa 28:21 : 21 For as `at' mount Perazim rise doth Jehovah, As `at' the valley in Gibeon He is troubled, To do His work -- strange `is' His work, And to do His deed -- strange `is' His deed.'
  • 1 Pet 4:4 : 4 in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,