1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is at hand; be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
In Context
8And above all things have fervent love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:2It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to heart.
Ezekiel 7:2Thou son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning the land of Israel:—
Matthew 24:13But he that endureth to the end will be saved.
Matthew 25:13Watch, therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.
Mark 13:33Take heed, watch; for ye know not when the time is.
Luke 21:34But take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be weighed down with surfeiting and drunkenness and worldly cares, and that day come upon you unawares.
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 →