1 Peter 4:5
But they must render an account to him who is prepared to judge the living and the dead.
Catholic Public Domain 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 12:14And so, for all that is done and for each error, God will bring judgment: whether it was good or evil.
Malachi 3:13Your words have gathered strength over me, says the Lord.
Matthew 25:31But when the Son of man will have arrived in his majesty, and all the Angels with him, then he will sit upon the seat of his majesty.
John 5:22For the Father does not judge anyone. But he has given all judgment to the Son,
Acts 10:42And he instructed us to preach to the people, and to testify that he is the One who was appointed by God to be the judge of the living and of the dead.
Romans 14:10So then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we shall 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 →