These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
I don’t know about you, but I find this sentence confusing. I glanced through several other translations of this verse and you know what? They confused me, too.
Let’s deconstruct what Peter is saying here:
These have come…
In verse six, Peter talks about the grief believers suffer because of “all kinds of trials.” Peter knows what he is talking about here. He certainly has experienced all kinds of trials! But why do trials come? Why do we suffer if God is watching out for us?
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