Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,

 (vii) The rebirth of the Christian is a rebirth to love ( 1 John 4:7). Because the life of God is in him, he is cleansed from the essential unforgiving bitterness of the self-centred life and there is in him something of the forgiving and sacrificial love of God. 