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18 And

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved,
    what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”

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18 And,

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved,
    what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 4:18 Prov. 11:31 (see Septuagint)

31 If the righteous are repaid on earth,
    how much more the wicked and the sinner!(A)

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31 If the righteous receive their due(A) on earth,
    how much more the ungodly and the sinner!

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24 But when the righteous turn away from their righteousness and commit iniquity and do the same abominable things that the wicked do, shall they live? None of the righteous deeds that they have done shall be remembered, for the treachery of which they are guilty and the sin they have committed, they shall die.(A)

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24 “But if a righteous person turns(A) from their righteousness and commits sin and does the same detestable things the wicked person does, will they live? None of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness(B) they are guilty of and because of the sins they have committed, they will die.(C)

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31 For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”(A)

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31 For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”(A)

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and if he did not spare the ancient world, even though he saved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;(A) and if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to destruction[a] and made them an example of what is coming to the ungodly;[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2.6 Other ancient authorities lack to destruction
  2. 2.6 Other ancient authorities read an example to those who were to be ungodly

if he did not spare the ancient world(A) when he brought the flood on its ungodly people,(B) but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;(C) if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes,(D) and made them an example(E) of what is going to happen to the ungodly;(F)

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15 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly[a] of all the deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

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  1. 15 Other ancient authorities read everyone

15 to judge(A) everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Jude 1:15 From the Jewish First Book of Enoch (approximately the first century b.c.)

38 but my righteous one will live by faith.
    My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back.”(A)

39 But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost but among those who have faith and so preserve our souls.(B)

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38 And,

“But my righteous[a] one will live by faith.(A)
    And I take no pleasure
    in the one who shrinks back.”[b](B)

39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.

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  1. Hebrews 10:38 Some early manuscripts But the righteous
  2. Hebrews 10:38 Hab. 2:4 (see Septuagint)

12 So if you think you are standing, watch out that you do not fall.

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12 So, if you think you are standing firm,(A) be careful that you don’t fall!

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But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the godless.(A)

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By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire,(A) being kept for the day of judgment(B) and destruction of the ungodly.

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The Guilt of Humankind

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those who by their injustice suppress the truth.(A)

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God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity

18 The wrath of God(A) is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,

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22 There they strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “It is through many persecutions that we must enter the kingdom of God.”(A)

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22 strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith.(A) “We must go through many hardships(B) to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.

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And I will put this third into the fire,
    refine them as one refines silver,
    and test them as gold is tested.
They will call on my name,
    and I will answer them.
I will say, ‘They are my people,’
    and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’ ”(A)

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This third I will put into the fire;(A)
    I will refine them like silver(B)
    and test them like gold.(C)
They will call(D) on my name(E)
    and I will answer(F) them;
I will say, ‘They are my people,’(G)
    and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.(H)’”

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The wicked are not so
    but are like chaff that the wind drives away.(A)
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment
    nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous,(B)

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Not so the wicked!
    They are like chaff(A)
    that the wind blows away.
Therefore the wicked will not stand(B) in the judgment,(C)
    nor sinners in the assembly(D) of the righteous.

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