1 Peter 4:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹² 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:

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Beloved, do not be amazed and bewildered at the fiery ordeal which is taking place to test your quality, as though something strange (unusual and alien to you and your position) were befalling you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² 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:

Common English Bible

¹² Dear friends, don’t be surprised about the fiery trials that have come among you to test you. These are not strange happenings.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Most beloved, do not choose to sojourn in the passion which is a temptation to you, as if something new might happen to you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Dearly beloved, think not strange the burning heat which is to try you, as if some new thing happened to you;

1 Peter 4:12 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of judgement and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for one higher than the high regardeth; and there be higher than they.

Isaiah 28:21

For 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.

Daniel 11:35

And some of them that be wise shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for the time appointed.

1 Corinthians 10:13

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

1 Corinthians 3:13

each man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself shall prove each man's work of what sort it is.

2 Timothy 3:12

Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

1 Peter 4:4

wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

1 Peter 5:9

whom withstand stedfast in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.