1 Peter 4:5
Who shall render account to him, who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 all things that are done, God will bring into judgment for every error, whether it be good or evil.
Malachi 3:13Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord.
Matthew 25:31And when the Son of man shall come in his majesty, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his majesty.
John 5:22For neither doth the Father judge any man, but hath given all judgment to the Son.
Acts 10:42And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is he who was appointed by God, to be judge of the living and of the dead.
Romans 14:10But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or thou, why dost thou despise thy 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 →