1 Peter 4:7

The end of all things has approached; therefore be serious and self-controlled in your praying.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

6(which is precisely why dead ones were once evangelized, that they should be judged as men in flesh, to be sure, but that they should live according to God in spirit).

8Above all things your love for one another should be constant, because love covers a multitude of sins.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:13So the one who perseveres to the end, he will be saved.

Matthew 25:13Therefore, keep alert, because you do not know the day nor the hour in which the Son of the Man is coming.

Mark 13:33Watch! Keep alert! Pray! Because you do not know when that time will be.

Luke 21:34“But keep a watch on yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness, and cares of life, and that Day come upon you suddenly.

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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