For then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

He was destined before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.

Ungodly

And to one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers

training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sober, upright, and godly lives in this present age,

and if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

But by the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

For certain persons have crept in secretly, those who were long ago marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

General references

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost."

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