1 Peter 1:6
1 Peter 1:6
“Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Believers rejoice in this hope even while enduring various trials for a brief season.
What Does 1 Peter 1:6 Mean?
Peter does not pretend the trials are small or imaginary. They are real, varied, and grievous. Yet he frames them as temporary, for a season, against a hope that is permanent.
Joy and heaviness are allowed to sit in the same heart. Peter does not ask his readers to deny their grief, only to set it inside a larger frame: the sorrow is brief and purposeful, the rejoicing is anchored beyond it. Faith does not erase the weight; it carries it toward a coming dawn.
In the Original Language
peirasmos (πειρασμός), 'temptations' -- trials or testings that prove what a person truly is.