In which you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold trials:

While they behold your chaste behavior coupled with fear.

Who formerly were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, by which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water.

But the God of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that you have suffered a while, restore, establish, strengthen, settle you.