1 Peter 4:7

But the end of all things is at hand; be sober-minded, therefore, and watchful, that you may pray.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

In Context

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.

8But, above all things, have fervent love one for another; for love will cover a multitude of sins.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:13But he that endures to the end, shall be saved.

Matthew 25:13Watch, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Mark 13:33Take heed, watch and pray: for you know not when the time is.

Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts become heavy with reveling and drunkenness and the cares of life, and that day come upon you when you look not for it.

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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