7. Your faith will be like gold that has been tested in a fire. And these trials will prove that your faith is worth much more than gold that can be destroyed. They will show that you will be given praise and honour and glory when Jesus Christ returns.
8. You have never seen Jesus, and you don't see him now. But still you love him and have faith in him, and no words can tell how glad and happy
9. you are to be saved. That's why you have faith.
10. Some prophets told how kind God would be to you, and they searched hard to find out more about the way you would be saved.
11. The Spirit of Christ was in them and was telling them how Christ would suffer and would then be given great honour. So they searched to find out exactly who Christ would be and when this would happen.