1 Peter 4:5

These shall give an account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.

In Context

4They are amazed at this―that you run not with them into the same excess of debauchery, and they revile you.

6For this cause, indeed, even those who have died had the gospel preached to them, that though they might be judged according to the will of men in the flesh, yet they might live according to the will of God in the spirit.

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Cross References

Matthew 25:31When the Son of man shall come in his own glory, and all the holy angels with him, then will he sit on the throne of his own glory;

John 5:22For the Father judges no one, but has given all judicial authority to the Son;

Acts 10:42And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that this is he who has been appointed by God as the judge of the living and the dead.

Romans 14:10But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we all shall stand before the judgment-seat of the 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 →

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