1 Peter 4:18 (WEB)
“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”
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“That she may at the same time also come to know, if they who do turn meet with so great difficulty, how great punishment is prepared for the ungodly, who will not turn to God: as it is written in another place, “If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the sinner and ungodly appear?”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iv. 18.
Read the whole comment“Since “if the righteous shall scarcely be saved, where shall the sinner and the ungodly appear?”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iv. 18.
Read the whole comment“…should suffer, in these hard things, I say, lest they should faint, Peter saith to them, “Time it is that Judgment begin with the House of God,” etc. What therefore is to be in the Judgment?” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iv. 18. He quotes the whole passage.
Read the whole comment“To which he added this testimony: “For if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear?”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iv. 17, 18.
Read the whole comment“For the good, too, are ruled with a rod of iron, as it is said of them: “The time is come that judgment should begin at the house of God; and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be to them that obey not the gospel of God? and if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iv. 17, 18.
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