1 Peter 4:18 Cross References - Mace

¹⁸ if the virtuous escape with difficulty, what will become of impious transgressors?

²² for unless the time was to be short, very few could escape, but for the sake of the converts the time shall be short. ²³ Then if any shall cry, the Messiah is here, or he is there: give no credit to it. ²⁴ for there shall arise false Messiahs, and false prophets, and shall shew such astonishing miracles and prodigies, as to deceive, if that can do it, the very converts themselves.

²⁰ so that if the Lord should suffer it to last, no man could escape: but he will not suffer the time to last long, out of regard to his elect. ²¹ Then if any one shall say to you, Christ is here, or, he is there, don't believe it. ²² for false Christs, and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and prodigies, so as to seduce, if it were possible, even the very elect.

¹ Then many of the Publicans, and people of a bad reputation gather'd about Jesus to hear him;

³¹ for if the green wood burn thus, how will the dry wood flame?

²² encouraging the disciples, exhorting them to persevere in the faith, representing that it is thro' much tribulation that we must enter into the kingdom of God.

²⁴ you must be brought before Cesar: and upon your account, the whole company now with you, will God preserve.

³¹ upon this Paul said to the centurion and his men, "except the crew stay aboard, you can't be safe:"

⁴² the soldiers propos'd to dispatch the prisoners, for fear any of them should swim for their lives; but the centurion, ⁴³ who had a mind to save Paul, prevented their design: and order'd all that could swim immediately to get off to shore, ⁴⁴ and the rest to get upon the planks, or other pieces of the wreck: and by this means it happen'd that they all came safe to land.

¹⁸ there the divine wrath is revealed from heaven against all impiety, and injustice of men, who wickedly suppress the truth.

⁶ for at the appointed time Christ died for us, when we were in a helpless, sinful state.

⁸ but herein hath God displayed his love towards us, in that Christ died for us, even while we were yet sinners.

¹² wherefore let him that thinks he stands firm, take heed lest he fall.

¹ Let us therefore fear, lest any of us by rejecting the promise of entring into his rest, should be excluded from it.

³⁸ the just shall have life by trusting in me, but if he revolt, he will be the object of my displeasure. ³⁹ as for us, we are not such as desert to their own destruction; but such as persevere in the faith, to the saving of our souls.

⁸ Be temperate, be vigilant: for your adversary the Devil goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

⁵ since he did not spare the old world, having preserved only eight persons, including Noah, that preacher of virtue, when he brought the deluge upon the impious world: ⁶ since he condemn'd the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to an entire subversion, and reduc'd them to ashes, to make them serve for examples to future impiety:

⁷ but the heavens and the earth now existing are kept in store by his Logos, reserv'd for the conflagration of doomsday, when the impious shall be involv'd in perdition.

¹⁵ to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the impious among them, of all the impious actions they have committed, and of all the injurious expressions, which impious sinners have utter'd against him."