1 Peter 4:12
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
1 Peter 4:12 (NIV)
“Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you.”
1 Peter 2:1-5
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: 3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
The SYMPTOMS
1 Peter 2:1
Wherefore laying aside ALL MALICE, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
1 Peter 2:1
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and ALL GUILE, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
1 Peter 2:1
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and HYPOCRISIES, and envies, and all evil speakings,
1 Peter 2:1
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and ENVIES, and all evil speakings,
1 Peter 2:1
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and ALL EVIL SPEAKINGS,
The SOURCE
James 4:1-2
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
The SOLUTION
1 Peter 2:1a
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
1 Peter 1:22
22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
James 4:9-11a
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. 11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren.
1 Peter 2:21-23
21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: 22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: