Beloved, wonder not at the fiery trial among you, which is come upon you for a trial, as if some strange thing happened to you;

The Lord does not delay his promise in the manner some account delaying; but he exercises long-suffering toward us, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should come to reformation.

As, indeed, in all his epistles, speaking in them concerning these things: in which there are some things hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

I rejoiced greatly, when I found some of your children walking in truth, as we received commandment from the Father.

And making a difference, have compassion, indeed, on some:

Fear none of the things which you shall suffer; behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried; and you shall have tribulation ten days: be you faithful until death, and I will give you a crown of life.