1 Peter 1:6
Good News Translation
Be glad about this, even though it may now be necessary for you to be sad for a while because of the many kinds of trials you suffer.

New Revised Standard Version
In this you rejoice, even if now for a little while you have had to suffer various trials,

Contemporary English Version
On that day you will be glad, even if you have to go through many hard trials for a while.

New American Bible
In this you rejoice, although now for a little while you may have to suffer through various trials,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherein you shalt greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations:

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Wherein you shalt greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations:

ye greatly.

1 Peter 1:8 Whom having not seen, you love: in whom also now though you see him not, you believe and, believing, shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorified;

1 Peter 4:13 But if you partake of the sufferings of Christ, rejoice that, when his glory shall be revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy.

1 Samuel 2:1 My heart hath rejoiced in the Lord, and my horn is exalted in my God: my mouth is enlarged over my enemies: because I have joyed in thy salvation.

Psalm 9:14 Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

Psalm 35:10 All my bones shall say: Lord, who is like to thee? Who deliverest the poor from the hand of them that are stronger than he; the needy and the poor from them that strip him.

Psalm 95:1 Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour.

Isaiah 12:2,3 Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and will not fear: because the Lord is my strength, and my praise, and he is become my salvation. . . .

Isaiah 61:3,10 To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify him. . . .

Matthew 5:12 Be glad and rejoice for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.

Luke 1:47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.

Luke 2:10 And the angel said to them: Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy that shall be to all the people:

Luke 10:20 But yet rejoice not in this, that spirits are subject unto you: but rejoice in this, that your names are written in heaven.

John 16:22 So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you.

Romans 5:2,11 By whom also we have access through faith into this grace wherein we stand: and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God. . . .

Romans 12:12 Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribulation. Instant in prayer.

2 Corinthians 6:10 As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing: as needy, yet enriching many: as having nothing and possessing all things.

2 Corinthians 12:9,10 And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. . . .

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity,

Philippians 3:3 For we are the circumcision, who in spirit serve God and glory in Christ Jesus, not having confidence in the flesh.

Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always: again, I say, rejoice.

1 Thessalonians 1:6 And you became followers of us and of the Lord: receiving the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

James 1:2,9 My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations: . . .

for.

1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore and watch in prayers.

1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself perfect you and confirm you and establish you.

2 Corinthians 4:17 For that which is at present momentary and light of our tribulation worketh for us above measure, exceedingly an eternal weight of glory.

if.

1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which is tried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the appearing of Jesus Christ.

Psalm 119:75 I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are equity: and in thy truth thou hast humbled me.

Lamentations 3:32,33 Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies. . . .

Hebrews 12:7-11 Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons. For what son is there whom the father doth not correct? . . .

ye are.

Job 9:27,28 If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow. . . .

Psalm 69:20 In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none.

Psalm 119:28 My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: strengthen thou me in thy words.

Isaiah 61:3 To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify him.

Matthew 11:28 Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you.

Matthew 26:37 And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to grow sorrowful and to be sad.

Romans 9:2 That I have great sadness and continual sorrow in my heart.

Philippians 2:26 For indeed he longed after you all: and was sad, for that you had heard that he was sick.

Hebrews 12:11 Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring with it joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield to them that are exercised by it the most peaceable fruit of justice.

James 4:9 Be afflicted and mourn and weep: let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into sorrow.

manifold.

Psalm 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will the Lord deliver them.

John 16:33 These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have distress. But have confidence. I have overcome the world.

Acts 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith: and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 4:9-13 For I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it were men appointed to death. We are made a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men. . . .

2 Corinthians 4:7-11 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God and not of us. . . .

2 Corinthians 11:23-27 They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. . . .

Hebrews 11:35-38 Women received their dead raised to life again. But others were racked, not accepting deliverance, that they might find a better resurrection. . . .

James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations:

Context
A Living Hope
5Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time. 6Wherein you shalt greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations: 7That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which is tried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the appearing of Jesus Christ.…
Cross References
Romans 5:2
By whom also we have access through faith into this grace wherein we stand: and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.

Hebrews 12:11
Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring with it joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield to them that are exercised by it the most peaceable fruit of justice.

James 1:2
My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations:

1 Peter 3:17
For it is better doing well (if such be the will of God) to suffer than doing ill.

1 Peter 4:12
Dearly beloved, think not strange the burning heat which is to try you: as if some new thing happened to you.

1 Peter 5:10
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself perfect you and confirm you and establish you.

1 Peter 1:5
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