1 Peter 4:18
Good News Translation
As the scripture says, "It is difficult for good people to be saved; what, then, will become of godless sinners?"

New Revised Standard Version
And “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinners?”

Contemporary English Version
"If good people barely escape, what will happen to sinners and to others who don't respect God?"

New American Bible
“And if the righteous one is barely saved, where will the godless and the sinner appear?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if the just man shall scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

if.

1 Peter 5:8 Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.

Proverbs 11:31 He that loveth correction, loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof, is foolish.

Jeremiah 25:29 For behold I begin to bring evil on the city wherein my name is called upon: and shall you be as innocent and escape free? you shall not escape free: for I will call for the sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.

Ezekiel 18:24 But if the just man turn himself away from his justice, and do iniquity according to all the abominations which the wicked man useth to work, shall he live? all his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: in the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and in his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die.

Zechariah 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined: and I will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: Thou art my people: and they shall say: The Lord is my God.

Matthew 24:22-24 And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened. . . .

Mark 13:20-22 And unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh should be saved: but, for the sake of the elect which he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days. . . .

Luke 23:31 For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done in the dry?

Acts 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith: and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

Acts 27:24,31,42-44 Saying: Fear not, Paul, thou must be brought before Caesar; and behold, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:12 Wherefore, he that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed lest he fall.

Hebrews 4:1 Let us fear therefore lest, the promise being left of entering into his rest, any of you should be thought to be wanting.

Hebrews 10:38,39 But my just man liveth by faith: but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul. . . .

where.

Psalm 1:4,5 Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth. . . .

Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those men that detain the truth of God in injustice:

Romans 5:6 For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?

2 Peter 2:5,6 And spared not the original world, but preserved Noe, the eighth person, the preacher of justice, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly. . . .

2 Peter 3:7 But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of the ungodly men.

Jude 1:15 To execute judgment upon all and to reprove all the ungodly for all the works of their ungodliness, whereby they have done ungodly: and for all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against God.

the sinner.

Genesis 13:13 And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord beyond measure.

1 Samuel 15:18 And the Lord sent thee on the way, and said: Go, and kill the sinners of Amalec, and thou shalt fight against them until thou hast utterly destroyed them.

Luke 15:1 Now the publicans and sinners drew near unto him to hear him.

Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his charity towards us: because when as yet we were sinners according to the time.

Context
Suffering as Christians
17For the time is, that judgment should begin at the house of God. And if at first at us, what shall be the end of them that believe not the gospel of God? 18And if the just man shall scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? 19Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God commend their souls in good deeds to the faithful Creator.…
Cross References
Proverbs 11:31
He that loveth correction, loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof, is foolish.

Luke 23:31
For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done in the dry?

1 Timothy 1:9
Knowing this: That the law is not made for the just man but for the unjust and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the wicked and defiled, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

James 5:6
You have condemned and put to death the Just One: and he resisted you not.

1 Peter 4:17
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