1 Peter 4:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

Dear brothers, do not be surprised, as if it was something strange, if your faith is tested as by fire:

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

Isaiah 28:21

For the Lord will come up as on Mount Perazim, he will be moved to wrath as in the valley of Gibeon; so that he may do his workstrange is his work; and give effect to his actunnatural is his act.

Daniel 11:35

And some of those who are wise will have wisdom in testing themselves and making themselves clean, till the time of the end: for it is still for the fixed time.

1 Corinthians 10:13

You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.

1 Corinthians 3:13

Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work.

2 Timothy 3:12

Yes, and all whose purpose is to be living in the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus, will be cruelly attacked.

1 Peter 2:11

My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;

1 Peter 4:4

And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

1 Peter 5:9

Do not give way to him but be strong in your faith, in the knowledge that your brothers who are in the world undergo the same troubles.