KJV King James Version
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 Peter 4:12
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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you.
WEB World English Bible
Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
ASV American Standard Version
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto you:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,
Surrounding context — 1 Peter 4
9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
10 As every man hath received the gift, [even so] minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
11 If any man speak, [let him speak] as the oracles of God; if any man minister, [let him do it] as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
13 But 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.
14 If 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.
15 But 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.
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Ἀγαπητοί,G27 · agapētosbelovedμὴG3361 · mēnotξενίζεσθεG3579 · xenizōto hostτῇG3588 · hothe/this/whoἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongὑμῖνG4771 · suyouπυρώσειG4451 · purōsisburningπρὸςG4314 · prosto/withπειρασμὸνG3986 · peirasmostemptation/testing: temptationὑμῖνG4771 · suyouγινομένῃG1096 · ginomaito beὡςG5613 · hōsas/whenξένουG3581 · xenosforeignὑμῖνG4771 · suyouσυμβαίνοντος·G4819 · sumbainōto happen
Cross-references
2 Timothy 3:12Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.1 Peter 1:6-7Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:1 Peter 5:9Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.1 Thessalonians 3:2-4And 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:Daniel 11:35And [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.1 Corinthians 10:13There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].1 Corinthians 3:13Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.1 Peter 4:4Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you]:Isaiah 28:21For the LORD shall rise up as [in] mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as [in] the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
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