1 Peter 4:17

Judgment begins with God's own household, and if so, the fate of those who reject the gospel is far more serious. It sets present trials in light of God's purifying and ultimate justice.

Cross-references · 21

• Jer 25:29For, 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.”’
• Rom 2:9oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
• 2 Th 1:8giving vengeance to those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
• Ezek 9:6Kill utterly the old man, the young man, the virgin, little children and women; but don’t come near any man on whom is the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” Then they began at the old men who were before the house.
• 1 Pet 2:8and, “a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
• Luke 12:47–48That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
• Mal 3:5I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
• Luke 23:31For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?”
• Heb 12:24–25to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
• Matt 3:9–10Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
• Matt 11:20–24Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent.
• Luke 10:12–14I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.
• Amos 3:2“I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”
• Heb 2:2For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;
• Isa 10:12Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.
• Gal 5:7You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
• Heb 2:4God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?
• Heb 5:9Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
• Gal 3:1Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
• Heb 11:8By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
• Jer 49:12For Yahweh says: “Behold, they to whom it didn’t pertain to drink of the cup shall certainly drink; and are you he who shall altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink.

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