1 Peter 4:5
who will give an account to Him who is ready to judge [the] living and [the] dead,
Literal Standard 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 12:14For every work God brings into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or bad.”
Malachi 3:13“Your words have been hard against Me,” said YHWH, || “And you have said, What have we spoken against You?
Matthew 25:31And whenever the Son of Man may come in His glory, and all the holy messengers with Him, then He will sit on a throne of His glory;
John 5:22for neither does the Father judge anyone, but all the judgment He has given to the Son,
Acts 10:42and He commanded us to preach to the people, and to fully testify that it is He who has been ordained judge of living and dead by God—
Romans 14:10And you, why do you judge your brother? Or again, you, why do you set at nothing your brother? For we will all stand at the judgment seat of the 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 →