Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,
ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: "Heaviness" (lupeo) means "to make sorrowful; to affect with sadness, cause grief; to throw into sorrow" (Thayer 383-1-3076). "Manifold" (poikilos) refers to "divers sorts" (Thayer 527-1-4164). "The word emphasizes the diversity rather than the number of trials" (Wuest, I Peter 25). "The word ’temptations’ (periasmos) ... refers both to trials and testings, and also solicitations to do evil, in short, to all that goes to furnish a test of character" (Wuest, I Peter 25). The temptations or trials are viewed as much diversified; and they may be persecutions, deprivations, or difficulties.