1 Peter 4:5
Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
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Ecclesiastes 12:14For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Malachi 3:13Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
Matthew 25:31When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
John 5:22For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
Acts 10:42And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
Romans 14:10But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 4:5-7
Comfort of the Servants of God. ( a. d. 66.) 4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: 5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. 6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. I. Here you have the visible change wrought in those who in the foregoing verse were represented as having been in… Read the whole commentary →