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1 Peter 4:12

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Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
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  1. 2 Timothy 3:12Rank 1 from verse 12
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    12Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

  2. 1 Peter 1:6–7Rank 2 from verse 12
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    6Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

    7That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

  3. 1 Peter 5:9Rank 3 from verse 12
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    9Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

  4. 1 Thessalonians 3:2–4Rank 4 from verse 12
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    2And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:

    3That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

    4For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

  5. Daniel 11:35Rank 5 from verse 12
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    35And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.

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1 Peter 4:12

COMBINED MEANING

think

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1. To form or hold a thought. 2. To judge or suppose. 3. To intend. 4. To consider or remember. 5. To imagine or esteem.

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strange

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Foreign; belonging to another country. Wonderful; causing surprise; exciting curiosity.

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fiery

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Consisting of, burning with, heated by, or resembling fire; intensely hot or fierce.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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trial

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The act or process of testing or proving; a test, examination, or affliction that tries a person's faith, character, or endurance.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

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try

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Sense 1: To examine, test, prove, search, or discern. Sense 2: To refine or prove by fire so that quality is made manifest.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

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happened

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of happen, meaning to light; to fall or come unexpectedly. To come by chance; to come without one’s previous expectation; to fall out. To come; to befall.

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4:12Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

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4:13But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

4:14If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

4:15But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.

4:16Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

4:17For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

4:18And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

4:19Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

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