“In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested...

“...born again...to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being...

“According to his great mercy he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ” 1 Peter 1:3b...