5. Through his faithfulness, you are guarded by God’s power so that you can receive the salvation he is ready to reveal in the last time.
6. You now rejoice in this hope, even if it’s necessary for you to be distressed for a short time by various trials.
7. This is necessary so that your faith may be found genuine. (Your faith is more valuable than gold, which will be destroyed even though it is itself tested by fire.) Your genuine faith will result in praise, glory, and honor for you when Jesus Christ is revealed.
8. Although you’ve never seen him, you love him. Even though you don’t see him now, you trust him and so rejoice with a glorious joy that is too much for words.
9. You are receiving the goal of your faith: your salvation.
10. The prophets, who long ago foretold the grace that you’ve received, searched and explored, inquiring carefully about this salvation.