1 Peter 4:18 KJV — MannaFest

1 Peter 4:18

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

And, “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”

YLT

And if the righteous man is scarcely saved, the ungodly and sinner--where shall he appear?

DBT

And if the righteous is difficultly saved, where shall the impious and [the] sinner appear?

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1 Peter — Peter to scattered exiles across Asia Minor — five chapters on suffering and a living hope. A royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people.

Author: The apostle Peter (1:1); Silvanus assisted (5:12)
Date: Early 60s AD, likely from ‘Babylon’ (Rome, 5:13)

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Proverbs 11:31
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
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? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
Luke 23:31
For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
2 Peter 2:5–6
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Jude 1:15
To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

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(1.) He tells them that the time had come when judgment must begin at the house of God. The usual method of Providence has been this: When God brings great calamities and sore judgments upon whole nations, he generally begins with his own people, Isa. x. "Such a time of universal calamity is now at hand, which was foretold by our Saviour, Matt. xxiv.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

31 , Behold the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth; how much more the wicked and the sinner? This the LXX. translates exactly as the apostle here quotes it. Hence we may learn, [1.] The grievous sufferings of good people in this world are sad presages of much heavier judgments coming upon impenitent sinners.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The "scarcely" marks the severity of the ordeal, and the unlikelihood (in a mere human point of view) of the righteous sustaining it; but the righteousness of Christ and God's everlasting covenant make it all sure. ungodly--having no regard for God; negative description. sinner--loving sin; positive; the same man is at once God-forgetting and sin-loving. appear--in judgment.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

And the open sinner appear - In that day of vengeance. The salvation here primarily spoken of is of a temporal nature. But we may apply the words to eternal things, and then they are still more awful.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Quotes PRO 11:31
'If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly appear?'

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1PE 4:18PRO 11:31 1PE 4:17-18
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
1PE 4:18EZE 18:24 EZE 33:18
1PE 4:18EZE 18:24 PRO 21:16
1PE 4:18EZE 18:24 2JN 1:8
1PE 4:18PRO 11:31 JER 25:29
1PE 4:18EZE 18:24 EZE 33:12-13
1PE 4:18EZE 18:24 REV 3:11
1PE 4:18PRO 11:31 1CO 11:30-32

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