1-Peter 4:12 Themes and Topics

For he knew the way with me,: he tried me.; I shall come forth as gold. Verse Concepts

And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God. Verse Concepts

For thou didst try us, O God, thou didst prove us as purifying of silver. Verse Concepts

And I will turn back my hand upon thee, end I will straiten thy dross according to pureness, and I will remove all thine alloy: Verse Concepts

Behold, I purified thee and not with silver; I chose thee in the furnace of affliction. Verse Concepts

For this, thus said Jehovah of armies, Behold me melting them, and I tried them; for how shall I do for the face of the daughter of my people? Verse Concepts

And he sat melting and cleansing silver: and he cleansed the sons of Levi, and he purified them as gold and as silver, and they were to Jehovah bringing near the sacrifice in justice. Verse Concepts

That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ: Verse Concepts

Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you: Verse Concepts

Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you: But, inasmuch as ye participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; that also, in the revelation of his glory, ye might rejoice, transported with joy.

And ye have totally forgotten the entreaty which is spoken to you as to sons, My son, neglect not the instruction of the Lord, nor be enervated being rebuked by him: Verse Concepts

Rejoice and be transported with joy; for much your reward in the heavens for so they drove out the prophets which before you. Verse Concepts

Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you: But, inasmuch as ye participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; that also, in the revelation of his glory, ye might rejoice, transported with joy. If ye be reproached in the name of Christ, ye happy; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: by them truly he is defamed, and by you he is praised. read more.
For let not any of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or doing evil, or as an inspector, in what pertains to others. And if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him praise God in this portion.

Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you: But, inasmuch as ye participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; that also, in the revelation of his glory, ye might rejoice, transported with joy.

If ye endure correction, God treats you as sons; for who is the son which the father corrects not? And if ye are without correction, of which all are partakers, then are ye spurious, not sons. Since we truly have fathers of our flesh instructors, and we were influenced: shall we not rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live? read more.
For they truly for a few days, according as it seemed to them, corrected; but he for profit, in order to partake in his holiness.

For this, I Paul, the imprisoned of Christ Jesus for you the nations, If ye have heard of the distribution of the grace of God given to me for you: That by revelation he made Known to me the mystery; (as I before wrote briefly, read more.
By which ye, reading, can perceive My understanding in the mystery of Christ,) Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as now has been revealed to his holy sent and to the prophets by the Spirit: For the nations to be co-heirs, and united in one body, and, participators of his solemn promise in Christ by the good news:

I say then, Has God rejected his people It may not be. For I also am an Israelite, of Abraham's seed, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or know ye not in Elias, what says the writing? how he addresses God against Israel, saying, Lord, thy prophets have they killed, and dug down thine altars; and I alone was left, and they seek my soul. read more.
But what say to him the intimations of divine will I have left to myself seven thousand men, who bent not the knee to Baal. So then also in the time now has been a remnant according to the election of grace. And if to grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. And if of works, it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. What then What Israel seeks for, this be attained not; but the selection attained, and the rest were hardened. (As has been written, God gave them the spirit of mortal pain, eyes not to see, and earn not to hear;) even to this day. And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for booty, and for a stumblingblock, and for a retribution to them: Let their eyes be darkened not to see, and let them bend their back always. I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? It may not be: but by their fall salvation to the nations, to make them jealous. And if their fall the riches of the world, and their disaster the riches of the nations; how much more their fulness? (For I speak to you the nations, inasmuch as truly I am the sent of the nations, I highly value my service: If in some way I might make jealous my flesh, and I might save some of them.) For if their rejection the reconciliation of the world, what the reception, but life from the dead? And if the first fruit holy, also the mixture: and if the root holy, also the young shoots. And if certain of the young shoots were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in them, and wert a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

Wherefore, my beloved, do ye flee from idolatry. As to the wise speak I; judge ye what I say. The cup of praise which we praise, is it not the mutual participation of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the mutual participation of the body of Christ? read more.
That, one bread, one body, we are many: for we all partake of one bread. See ye Israel according to the flesh: are not they eating the sacrifices mutual participators of the altar?

For this also we, from the day which we heard, ceased not praying for you, and asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; For you to walk worthy of the Lord in all pleasing behavior, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; In all power being able according to the strength of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy. read more.
Returning thanks to the Father, having rendered us fitting for the portion of the lot of the holy in light: Who saved us from the power of darkness, and transferred into the kingdom of the Son of his love: In whom we have redemption by his blood, the remission of sins:

Let as many servants as are under the yoke deem their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the doctrines be not defamed. And let them having faithful masters not despise, for they are brethren; but rather let them serve, because they are faithful and dearly beloved, they having mutually received of the beneficence. These things teach and beseech.

Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you: But, inasmuch as ye participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; that also, in the revelation of his glory, ye might rejoice, transported with joy. If ye be reproached in the name of Christ, ye happy; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: by them truly he is defamed, and by you he is praised.

Simon Peter, servant and sent of Jesus Christ, to them having received by inheritance equally honoured faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, As his divine power having bestowed upon us all things which for life and devotion, by the knowledge of him having called us by glory and fitness: read more.
(By which the greatest and precious promises are bestowed upon us: that by these ye might be having escaped from the corruption in the world through eager desires.)