1 Peter 4:7

Everything is coming to an end! So think clearly and stay alert when you pray.

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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

6so that although they were rightly judged as far as being sinful human beings is concerned, they could live in the spirit as far as God is concerned.

8Most of all, you should love one another very deeply, for love covers many of the wrong things people do.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:2It's better to go to a funeral than to a party. In the end, everyone dies, and those who are still alive should think about it.

Ezekiel 7:2“Son of man, this is what the Lord God says to the people living in Israel: The end is here! The end has arrived throughout the country.

Matthew 24:13but those who hold out to the end will be saved.

Matthew 25:13So stay alert, for you don't know the day, or the hour.

Mark 13:33Keep watch! Stay awake! For you don't know when this will happen.

Luke 21:34Watch out that you don't become distracted by partying or getting drunk or by the worries of this life, so that this day catches you by surprise.

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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