1 Peter 4:5
But they will give an account to the One being ready to take his moshav (seat) as the Shofet of HaChayyim v'HaMesim (the Living and the Dead).
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 HaElohim shall bring kol ma'aseh (every work) into mishpat (judgment), with every ne'lam (secret thing, concealed thing), whether it be tov (good), or whether it be rah (evil).
Malachi 3:13Your devarim have been harsh against Me, 1 saith Hashem. Yet ye say: 1 What have we spoken so much against Thee? 1
Matthew 25:31And when the Bar Enosh + 25:31 Dan 7:13 comes, in his kavod and all his malachim with him, then he will sit upon his Kissei Kavod (Glorious Throne).
John 5:22For not even HaAv judges anyone, but all Mishpat Hashem has given to HaBen, + 5:22 Gn 18:25; Judg 11:27; Dan 7:10,13-14
Acts 10:42Moshiach gave mitzvah to us to preach to the people and to bear solemn edut that this one is the one having been appointed by Hashem as Shofet HaChayyim v'HaMesim.
Romans 14:10So you, why do you judge your Ach b'Moshiach? Or you, why do you despise your Ach b'Moshiach? For we shall all stand in the Bet Din (Court of Law) of Hashem + 14:10 see 2C 5:10 before his Kisse Din (judgment seat), his Kisse Mishpat,
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 →