Why God Will have the Righteous with Such Difficulty Saved
1 Peter 4:17-19
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us…


God will have it thus to sweeten heaven unto us. After a conflicting life peace is welcome; heaven is heaven indeed after trouble. We can relish it then. Because God will discard hypocrites in this life, who take up so much of religion as stands with their ease and credit in the world, avoiding every difficulty which accompanies godliness, but, so they may swim two ways at once, go on in their lusts still and be religious withal. This they approve of. Therefore, God will have it a hard matter to be saved, to frustrate the vain hopes of such wretches. Alas! it is an easy matter to be an hypocrite, but not to live godly.

(R. Sibbes.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

WEB: For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don't obey the Good News of God?




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