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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Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: …
Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
And 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: …
And 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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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-19)The frequent repetition of counsel and comfort to Christians, considered as sufferers, in every chapter of this epistle, shows that the greatest danger these new converts were in arose from the persecutions to which their embracing Christianity exposed them. The good behaviour of Christians under sufferings is the most difficult part of their duty, but yet necessary both for the honour of Christ a…
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