1 Peter 4:18

If it is hard even for the righteous to be saved, the outlook for the ungodly is dire. It underscores the seriousness of salvation and the danger of unbelief.

Cross-references · 25

• Prov 11:31Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
• Ezek 18:24But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
• Luke 23:31For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
• 2 Pet 2:5–6And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
• Jude 1:15To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
• 1 Cor 10:12Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
• Heb 10:38–39Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
• Acts 14:22Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
• Rom 1:18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
• 2 Pet 3:7But 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 ungodly men.
• Rom 5:8But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
• Zech 13:9And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
• Ps 1:4–5The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
• Jer 25:29For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
• Heb 4:1Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
• Matt 24:22–24And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
• Rom 5:6For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
• Acts 27:42–44And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
• Gen 13:13But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
• Mark 13:20–22And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
• 1 Sam 15:18And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
• Acts 27:24Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
• Luke 15:1Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
• Acts 27:31Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.

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