1 Peter 4:7
Now the end of all things has come near; be sober-minded, then, and be sober in [your] prayers.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
In Context
8Before all things, having earnest love among yourselves, because love covers a multitude of sins;
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:2Better to go to a house of mourning, || Than to go to a house of banqueting, || For that is the end of all men, || And the living lays [it] to his heart.
Ezekiel 7:2An end, the end has come on the four corners of the land.
Matthew 24:13but he who endured to the end, he will be saved;
Matthew 25:13Watch therefore, for you have not known the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man comes.
Mark 13:33Take heed, watch and pray, for you have not known when the time is;
Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves lest your hearts may be weighed down with carousing, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,
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 →