Only in those who don't know Him as their Heavenly Father.
Certainly, the wrath of God is intended to propel the unrepentant, unsaved sinner toward God. But the believer ought to have boldness in the day of judgment (1 John 4:16-17), being the redeemed, adopted, justified, sanctified child of God that s/he is.
In the Gospels, the atoning work of Christ had not yet been accomplished. Christ's warnings were never to a saved audience but only ever to those who might, after his sacrificial work at Calvary, enter into God's kingdom.
The "dire warnings" you want to direct at believers are, I believe, actually directed at false converts, or the unsaved, not at genuine, born-again people. And sometimes you are reading into verses a saved-and-lost construction, pushing the meaning of a verse farther toward your SAL view than it ought to go.
Aiki,
Are the following Scriptures for Christians or Unbelievers? If written to the unbelievers, then why were the Epistles written to the Church?
2 Timothy 2:19 (NIV)
19 Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: “
The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.”
Romans 6:1-4 (WEB)
6 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Ephesians 5:1-10 (WEB)
5 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance. 3 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness,
let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; 4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.
5 Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
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Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. 7 Therefore
don’t be partakers with them. 8 For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, 9 for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, 10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.
Galatians 5:16-24 (WEB)
16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,[a] 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24
Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
