Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
And if the righteous is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Holman Bible
what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?
International Standard Version
"If it is hard for the righteous person to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and sinful person?"
A Conservative Version
And if the righteous man is scarcely saved, where will the irreverent and sinful man appear?
Amplified
And if it is difficult for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the godless and the sinner?
An Understandable Version
And if people who are trying to do right [i.e., Christians] are saved through [suffering] such difficulties, where will the ungodly and sinful person end up, [if not in hell]?
Anderson New Testament
And if the righteous man is hardly saved, where shall the ungodly man and the sinner appear?
Bible in Basic English
And if it is hard for even the good man to get salvation, what chance has the man without religion or the sinner?
Common New Testament
And "if it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the godless man and the sinner?"
Daniel Mace New Testament
if the virtuous escape with difficulty, what will become of impious transgressors?
Darby Translation
And if the righteous is difficultly saved, where shall the impious and the sinner appear?
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
And, if the righteous with difficulty escape, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear!
Godbey New Testament
And if the righteous is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Goodspeed New Testament
If it is hard for the upright man to be saved, what will become of the godless and sinful?
John Wesley New Testament
And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Julia Smith Translation
And if the just one with difficulty be saved, where shall the irreligious and sinful appear
King James 2000
And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Lexham Expanded Bible
And if the righteous are saved with difficulty, {what will become of the ungodly and the sinner}?
Modern King James verseion
And if the righteous one is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And if the righteous scarcely be saved: where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Moffatt New Testament
If the just man is scarcely saved, what will become of the impious and sinful?
Montgomery New Testament
If the righteous man is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
NET Bible
And if the righteous are barely saved, what will become of the ungodly and sinners?
New Heart English Bible
"If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?"
Noyes New Testament
and "if the righteous scarcely is saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?"
Sawyer New Testament
And if the righteous man is scarcely saved, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?
The Emphasized Bible
And, if, the righteous man, is, with difficulty, saved, where then shall, the ungodly and sinful man, appear?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And if the righteous man is hardly saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Twentieth Century New Testament
If 'a good man is saved only with difficulty, what will become of the godless and the sinful?'
Webster
And if the righteous is scarcely saved, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Weymouth New Testament
And if it is difficult even for a righteous man to be saved, what will become of irreligious men and sinners?
Williams New Testament
And if it is hard for the upright man to be saved, what will become of the godless and sinful?
World English Bible
"If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?"
Worrell New Testament
And, if the righteous, with difficulty, is saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear?
Worsley New Testament
And if the righteous be saved with difficulty, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Youngs Literal Translation
And if the righteous man is scarcely saved, the ungodly and sinner -- where shall he appear?
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 Peter 4:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Sharing The Sufferings Of Christ
17 For the time is come for judgment to begin at the house of God: and if it begin first at us, what'shall be the end of them that obey not the gospel of God? 18 And if the righteous is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear? 19 Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing unto a faithful Creator.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:31
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: How much more the wicked and the sinner!
Luke 23:31
For if they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against Jehovah exceedingly.
1 Samuel 15:18
and Jehovah sent thee on a journey, and said, Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
Psalm 1:4-5
The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Jeremiah 25:29
For, lo, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Ezekiel 18:24
But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he hath done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
Zechariah 13:9
And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.
Matthew 24:22-24
And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Mark 13:20-22
And except the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the elect's sake, whom he chose, he shortened the days.
Luke 15:1
Now all the publicans and sinners were drawing near unto him to hear him.
Acts 14:22
confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.
Acts 27:24
saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must stand before Caesar: and lo, God hath granted thee all them that sail with thee.
Acts 27:31
Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.
Acts 27:42-44
And the soldiers counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them'should swim out, and escape.
Romans 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness;
Romans 5:6
For while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died for the ungodly.
Romans 5:8
But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
1 Corinthians 10:12
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
Hebrews 4:1
Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.
Hebrews 10:38-39
But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,
2 Peter 2:5-6
and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 Peter 3:7
but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
Jude 1:15
to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.