And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
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Gill's Exposition
And if the righteous scarcely be saved,.... Reference is had to Pro 11:31 where in the Septuagint version are the same words as here: the "righteous" are such, not who are so in their own opinion, or…
Barnes' Notes
And if the righteous scarcely be saved - If they are saved with difficulty. The word used here (μόλις molis) occurs in the following places: Act 14:18, “scarce restrained they the people;” Act 27:7,…
Adam Clarke
And if the righteous scarcely be saved - If it shall be with extreme difficulty that the Christians shall escape from Jerusalem, when the Roman armies shall come against it with the full commission to…
The frequent repetition of counsel and comfort to Christians, considered as sufferers, in every chapter of this epistle, shows that the greatest danger these new converts were in arose from the…
Cambridge Bible
And if the righteous scarcely be saved Once more we have a passage from the Old Testament (Pro 11:31) without any formula of quotation. In this instance the Apostle quotes from the LXX. version,…
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