the righteous are scarcely saved (1 pet. 4:12-19)

The Righteous Are Scarcely Saved(1 Pet. 4:12-19)

Do Not Be Surprised When You Endure Trials (1 Pet. 4:12)

1 Peter 4:12 (NKJV) 12 Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing

happened to you;


Matthew 5:10–12 (NKJV) 10 Blessed are those who are persecuted for

righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 “Blessed are you when they revile and

persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. 12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad,

for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.


John 15:20 (NKJV) 20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is

not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you…


John 15:18–21 (NKJV) 18 “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before

it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I

chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not

greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours

also. 21 But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.


2 Timothy 3:12 (NKJV) 12 …all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will

suffer persecution.


John 16:2 (NKJV) 2 They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the

time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service.

Learn to Rejoice When Being Persecuted (1 Pet. 4:13-14)

1 Peter 4:13–14 (NKJV) 13 but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may

also be glad with exceeding joy. 14 If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.

Learn to Rejoice When Being Persecuted (1 Pet. 4:13-14)

Matthew 6:20 (NKJV) 20 …lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do

not break in and steal.

Do Not Be Ashamed to Suffer as a Christian (1 Pet. 4:15-16)

1 Peter 4:15–16 (NKJV) 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an

evildoer, or as a busybody in other people’s matters. 16 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be

ashamed, but let him glorify God in this matter.


1 Peter 4:13 (NKJV) 13 but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s

sufferings...


Matthew 10:21 (NKJV) 21 “Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a

father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.


Matthew 10:35 (NKJV) 35 For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law

against her mother-in-law’;


1 Peter 3:16 (NKJV) 16 having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct

in Christ may be ashamed.

Judgment Begins at the House of God (1 Pet. 4:17-18)

1 Peter 4:17-18 (NKJV) 17 For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? 18 Now “If the righteous one is scarcely saved, Where

will the ungodly and the sinner appear?”


1 Peter 1:6–7 (NKJV) 6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various

trials, 7 that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is

tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,


Proverbs 11:31 (NKJV) 31 If the righteous will be recompensed on the earth, How

much more the ungodly and the sinner.

Proverbs 11:31 (BBE)If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the

evil-doer and the sinner!

Romans 6:23 (NKJV) 23 For the wages of sin is death…


Lk. 12:35-48• “Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning” (Lk. 12:35)• “…be like men who wait for their master…” (Lk. 12:36)• “Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will

find watching…” (Lk. 12:37)• “…if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third

watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants…” (Lk. 12:38)• “…you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you

do not expect.” (Lk. 12:40)• “the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not

looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware…” (Lk. 12:46)


Luke 12:47–48 (NKJV) 47 And that servant who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48 But he who did not know,

yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given,

from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.

Therefore Commit Your Life to God (1 Pet. 4:19)

1 Peter 4:19 (NKJV) 19 Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to

a faithful Creator.


Luke 14:26 (NKJV) 26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father

and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.


Matthew 16:25 (NKJV) 25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but

whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

the righteous are scarcely saved (1 pet. 4:12-19)

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