1 Peter 4:18

World English Bible (2000)

"If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?"

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ Εἰ ὁ δίκαιος μόλις σώζεται, ὁ ἀσεβὴς καὶ ἁμαρτωλὸς ποῦ φανεῖται;

Transliteration

And if the dikaios molis sōzetai, the asebēs and hamartōlos pou phaneitai?

Grammar Details

• *dikaios*: nominative, masculine, singular - righteous one
• *molis*: adverb - with difficulty/hardly/scarcely
• *sōzetai*: present passive indicative, 3rd person singular - is saved
• *asebēs*: nominative, masculine, singular - ungodly one
• *hamartōlos*: nominative, masculine, singular - sinner
• *pou*: interrogative adverb - where
• *phaneitai*: future middle indicative, 3rd person singular - will appear/will be seen

Word Meanings

• *dikaios*: righteous one/just person/righteous person
• *molis*: with difficulty/barely/scarcely/hardly
• *asebēs*: ungodly/impious/irreverent
• *phaneitai*: will appear/will be seen/will show himself

Referenced Verses

• Prov 11:31 : 31 Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth; how much more the wicked and the sinner!
• Luke 23:31 : 31 For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?"
• Ezek 18:24 : 24 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die.
• 2 Pet 2:5-6 : 5 and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly; 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;
• 2 Pet 3:7 : 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 : 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
• Ps 1:4-5 : 4 The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. 5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
• 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' and they will say, 'Yahweh is my God.'"
• Matt 24:22-24 : 22 Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened. 23 "Then if any man tells you, 'Behold, here is the Christ,' or, 'There,' don't believe it. 24 For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
• Acts 14:22 : 22 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.
• Acts 27:24 : 24 saying, 'Don't be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.'
• Rom 1:18 : 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
• Rom 5:6 : 6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
• 1 Cor 10:12 : 12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.
• Heb 4:1 : 1 Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
• Heb 10:38-39 : 38 But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him." 39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
• Acts 27:31 : 31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these stay in the ship, you can't be saved."
• Acts 27:42-44 : 42 The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape. 43 But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land; 44 and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So it happened that they all escaped safely to the land.
• Mark 13:20-22 : 20 Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days. 21 Then if anyone tells you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or, 'Look, there!' don't believe it. 22 For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
• Luke 15:1 : 1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.
• Jer 25:29 : 29 For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.
• Gen 13:13 : 13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
• 1 Sam 15:18 : 18 and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.'
• Rom 5:8 : 8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.