1 Peter 4:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • Prov 11:31 : 31 Lo, the righteous in the earth is recompensed, Surely also the wicked and the sinner!
  • Luke 23:31 : 31 for, if in the green tree they do these things -- in the dry what may happen?'
  • Ezek 18:24 : 24 And in the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, According to all the abominations That the wicked hath done, he doth -- thus he liveth, All his righteousnesses that he hath done are not remembered, For his trespass that he hath trespassed, And for his sin that he hath sinned, For them he doth die.
  • 2 Pet 2:5-6 : 5 and the old world did not spare, but the eighth person, Noah, of righteousness a preacher, did keep, a flood on the world of the impious having brought, 6 and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah having turned to ashes, with an overthrow did condemn, an example to those about to be impious having set `them';
  • 2 Pet 3:7 : 7 and the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.
  • Jude 1:15 : 15 to do judgment against all, and to convict all their impious ones, concerning all their works of impiety that they did impiously, and concerning all the stiff things that speak against Him did impious sinners.'
  • Ps 1:4-5 : 4 Not so the wicked: But -- as chaff that wind driveth away! 5 Therefore the wicked rise not in judgment, Nor sinners in the company of the righteous,
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,
  • Zech 13:9 : 9 And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, `My people it `is',' And it saith, `Jehovah `is' my God!'
  • Matt 24:22-24 : 22 And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened. 23 `Then if any one may say to you, Lo, here `is' the Christ! or here! ye may not believe; 24 for there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they shall give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, also the chosen.
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,
  • Acts 27:24 : 24 saying, Be not afraid Paul; before Caesar it behoveth thee to stand; and, lo, God hath granted to thee all those sailing with thee;
  • Rom 1:18 : 18 for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness.
  • Rom 5:6 : 6 For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious;
  • 1 Cor 10:12 : 12 so that he who is thinking to stand -- let him observe, lest he fall.
  • Heb 4:1 : 1 We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,
  • Heb 10:38-39 : 38 and `the righteous by faith shall live,' and `if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,' 39 and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.
  • Acts 27:31 : 31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, `If these do not remain in the ship -- ye are not able to be saved;'
  • Acts 27:42-44 : 42 And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one having swam out should escape, 43 but the centurion, wishing to save Paul, hindered them from the counsel, and did command those able to swim, having cast themselves out first -- to get unto the land, 44 and the rest, some indeed upon boards, and some upon certain things of the ship; and thus it came to pass that all came safe unto the land.
  • Mark 13:20-22 : 20 and if the Lord did not shorten the days, no flesh had been saved; but because of the chosen, whom He did choose to Himself, He did shorten the days. 21 `And then, if any may say to you, Lo, here `is' the Christ, or, Lo, there, ye may not believe; 22 for there shall rise false Christs and false prophets, and they shall give signs and wonders, to seduce, if possible, also the chosen;
  • Luke 15:1 : 1 And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him,
  • Jer 25:29 : 29 For lo, in the city over which My name is called, I am beginning to do evil, And ye -- ye are entirely acquitted! Ye are not acquitted, for a sword I am proclaiming, For all inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.
  • Gen 13:13 : 13 and the men of Sodom `are' evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly.
  • 1 Sam 15:18 : 18 and Jehovah sendeth thee in the way, and saith, Go, and thou hast devoted the sinners, the Amalekite, and fought against them till they are consumed;
  • Rom 5:8 : 8 and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

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    8for in seeing and hearing, the righteous man, dwelling among them, day by day the righteous soul with unlawful works was harassing.

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  • 18Whoso is walking uprightly is saved, And the perverted of ways falleth at once.

  • 6in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,

  • 26And those who heard, said, `And who is able to be saved?'

  • 21And thou, because thou hast warned him -- the righteous -- that the righteous sin not, and he hath not sinned, he surely liveth, because he hath been warned; and thou thy soul hast delivered.'

  • 3If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?

  • 23and some in fear save ye, out of the fire snatching, hating even the coat from the flesh spotted.

  • 14but if ye also should suffer because of righteousness, happy `are ye'! and of their fear be not afraid, nor be troubled,

  • 17for `it is' better doing good, if the will of God will it, to suffer, than doing evil;

  • 4For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast `them' down to Tartarus, did deliver `them' to judgment, having been reserved,

  • 14wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,

  • 5Thou hast met with the rejoicer And the doer of righteousness, In Thy ways they remember Thee, Lo, Thou hast been wroth when we sin, By them `is' continuance, and we are saved.

  • 7for scarcely for a righteous man will any one die, for for the good man perhaps some one also doth dare to die;

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  • 13but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice -- exulting;

  • 5but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

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  • 6The righteousness of the upright delivereth them, And in mischief the treacherous are captured.

  • 11All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts?

  • 45`And if thy foot may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into the life lame, than having the two feet to be cast to the gehenna, to the fire -- the unquenchable --

  • 17and if on the Father ye do call, who without acceptance of persons is judging according to the work of each, in fear the time of your sojourn pass ye,

  • 28In the rising of the wicked a man is hidden, And in their destruction the righteous multiply!

  • 26And Jehovah saith, `If I find in Sodom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, then have I borne with all the place for their sake.'

  • 24peradventure there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city; dost Thou also consume, and not bear with the place for the sake of the fifty -- the righteous who `are' in its midst?

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