1 Peter 4:7

But the end of all things is near. Therefore exercise self-restraint and be calm, so that you may be able to 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

6For that was why the good news was told to the dead also – that, after they have been judged in the body, as people are judged, they might live in the spirit, as God lives.

8Above all things, let your love for one another be earnest, for ‘Love throws a veil over countless sins.’

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Cross References

Matthew 24:13Yet the person who endures to the end will be saved.

Matthew 25:13Therefore watch, since you know neither the day nor the hour.

Mark 13:33“See that you are on the watch; for you do not know when the time will be.

Luke 21:34Be on your guard or your minds will become dulled by debauches or drunkenness or the anxieties of life, and ‘that day’ will close on you suddenly like a trap.

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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