1 Peter 4:5
Men who will give back an accounting to him who fares readily to judge the living and the dead.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
In Context
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 12:14For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
Malachi 3:13Your words have been stout against me, says LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?
Matthew 25:31But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the holy agents with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
John 5:22For neither does the Father judge any man, but he has given all judgment to the Son,
Acts 10:42And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to solemnly testify that this is the man designated by God, Judge of the living and the dead.
Romans 14:10But why do thou criticize thy brother? Or also why do thou disdain thy brother? For we will 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 →