1. 1 Peter 1:6 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What does the phrase “in this” refer to?

1 Peter 1:6 (ESV)

6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,

The phrase “in this,” with which Peter begins this second section of 1 Peter 1:3–12, refers back to the package of what God the Father had done as described in 1 Peter 1:3–5.