1 Peter 4:17-18
“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? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?”
King James Version · the opening — all 2 verses are below
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Divine judgment beginning with God's own household first, the principle fulfilled in every persecution and ultimately the last judgment.
Read the whole passage — all 2 verses (KJV)
4:17For 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?
4:18And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Fulfillment References
Revelation 2-3 Hebrews 12:6 Amos 3:2
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