1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
In Context
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:2It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.
Ezekiel 7:2And you, son of man, say, This is what the Lord has said to the land of Israel: An end has come, the end has come on the four quarters of the land.
Matthew 24:13But he who goes through to the end will get salvation.
Matthew 25:13Keep watch, then, because you are not certain of the day or of the hour.
Mark 13:33Take care, keep watch with prayer: for you are not certain when the time will be.
Luke 21:34But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:
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 →