1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things has approached. Therefore be serious, and be sober for the prayers.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
In Context
8And above all having fervent love for yourselves, because love will cover a multitude of sins,
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:2It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting. For that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart.
Ezekiel 7:2And thou, son of man, thus says lord LORD to the land of Israel: An end. The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
Matthew 24:13But he who endures to the end, this man will be saved.
Matthew 25:13Watch therefore, because ye know not the day nor the hour in which the son of man comes.
Mark 13:33Watch ye! Be alert and pray, for ye know not when the time is,
Luke 21:34But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down in debauchery and drunkenness and mundane cares, and that day come upon you sudden.
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 →