Now “If the righteous one is scarcely saved, Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?” (1 Peter 4:18).  If the righteous will be recompensed on the earth, How much more the ungodly and the sinner (Prov 11:31).   Tom Schreiner, a leading Calvinist NT scholar, makes this comment on 1 Pet 4:18:  The word molis can mean “scarcely” (Rom 5:7) or “with difficulty”