1 Peter 1:6-9 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold temptations:… 1. To try whether we have any faith. 2. To try whether our faith be as much as we take it to be or more; this, affliction will discover. 3. To purge and purify that true faith which we have, and increase it. (John Rogers.) Parallel Verses KJV: Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: |
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