else had it been needful for Him ofttimes to suffer since the founding of a world; but now, once for all, at the end of the ages, He hath been manifested for the putting away of sin through the sacrifice of Himself.

foreknown, indeed, from a founding of a world, but manifested in the end of the times for you,

Ungodly

but to him that works not, but believes on Him Who justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.

and so all Israel shall be saved; even as it has been written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer; He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

knowing this, that law is not enacted for a righteous man, but for lawless and unruly ones, for ungodly and sinful, for unholy and profane, for patricides, and matricides, for man-slayers,

teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly, and righteously, and godly in the present age;

and spared not the old world; but preserved Noah, an eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing a flood upon a world of ungodly people;

but the present heavens and the earth, by the same word, have been stored up for fire, being kept unto the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

For there crept in stealthily certain men, who of old were set forth for this condemnation, ungodly men, changing the grace of our God into lasciviousness; and denying the only Master and our Lord Jesus Christ.

General references

for the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which is lost."

Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his soul for his friends.