1 Peter 4:18

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Summary

1 Peter 4:18

And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

If

Where

Jude 1:15

The sinner

Luke 15:1

Romans 5:8

General references

Matthew 24:8

Luke 23:31

Bible References

If

Be temperate, be vigilant: for your adversary the Devil goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

for unless the time was to be short, very few could escape, but for the sake of the converts the time shall be short.

so that if the Lord should suffer it to last, no man could escape: but he will not suffer the time to last long, out of regard to his elect.

for if the green wood burn thus, how will the dry wood flame?

encouraging the disciples, exhorting them to persevere in the faith, representing that it is thro' much tribulation that we must enter into the kingdom of God.

you must be brought before Cesar: and upon your account, the whole company now with you, will God preserve.

wherefore let him that thinks he stands firm, take heed lest he fall.

Let us therefore fear, lest any of us by rejecting the promise of entring into his rest, should be excluded from it.

the just shall have life by trusting in me, but if he revolt, he will be the object of my displeasure.

Where

there the divine wrath is revealed from heaven against all impiety, and injustice of men, who wickedly suppress the truth.

for at the appointed time Christ died for us, when we were in a helpless, sinful state.

since he did not spare the old world, having preserved only eight persons, including Noah, that preacher of virtue, when he brought the deluge upon the impious world:

but the heavens and the earth now existing are kept in store by his Logos, reserv'd for the conflagration of doomsday, when the impious shall be involv'd in perdition.

to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the impious among them, of all the impious actions they have committed, and of all the injurious expressions, which impious sinners have utter'd against him."

The sinner

Then many of the Publicans, and people of a bad reputation gather'd about Jesus to hear him;

but herein hath God displayed his love towards us, in that Christ died for us, even while we were yet sinners.

General references

yet all this is but the beginning of sorrow.

for if the green wood burn thus, how will the dry wood flame?