1 Peter 4:7
The ende of all thynges is at hande. Be ye therefore sober, and watche vnto prayer.
Bible (Bishops')
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 into an house of mourning, then into a banketting house: For there is the ende of all men, and he that is liuing taketh it to heart.
Matthew 24:13But he that endureth to the ende, the same shalbe saued.
Matthew 25:13Watch therfore, for ye knowe neither the day, nor yet the houre, wherin the sonne of man shall come.
Mark 13:33Take heede, watche and pray: for ye knowe not when the tyme is.
Luke 21:34Take heede to your selues, lest at any tyme your heartes be ouercome with surfettyng and dronkennesse, and cares of this lyfe, and so the daye come vpon you vnwares.
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 →