"If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?"
scarely saved -- Some say keeping the context of 1 Peter 4:12 , firey trials will come on them soon and some of them will be saved from such fate. (Firey, is this a reference or prophecy to Nero’s firey punishment of Christians ?. Arsonist were punished with burning at the stake. Nero tried to lay the blame of the burning of Rome on the Christians.)