1 PETER 4:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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?”
For it is time for judgment to begin with God's household; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? — the assertion that 'judgment begins with the household of God' (tou oikou theou) draws from Ezekiel 9:6 and suggests that believers experience eschatological judgment in the form of present suffering. The rhetorical question establishes that if believers' suffering constitutes divine judgment, the fate (ti to telos) of gospel-rejecters must be far worse.
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