1 Peter 4:7
The Ketz (End) of all things now has drawn near. Let your thinking be one of zililut da'as (sober-mindedness), therefore, and exercise kibush hayetzer (self-control), for the sake of your tefillos.
Orthodox Jewish 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
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:2It is better to go to the bais evel (house of mourning), 1 than to go to the bais mishteh (house of feasting); 1 for that is the sof (end, conclusion) + 7:2 See 12:13 of kol haAdam; 1 and the living will take it to heart. 1
Ezekiel 7:2Also, thou ben adam, thus saith Adonoi Hashem unto Eretz Yisroel: Ketz (End), the End is come upon the four corners of ha'aretz.
Matthew 24:13But the one having endured to HaKetz (the End), this one will receive Yeshu'at Eloheinu.
Matthew 25:13Be shomer, be on the alert, therefore, for you do not have daas of the Yom or the Shaah (hour, time).
Mark 13:33Beware, stay shomer (on guard), for you do not have daas when the time is.
Luke 21:34And be shomer regarding yourselves lest your levavot (hearts) may be burdened with dissipation and drunkenness and the cares of the Olam HaZeh and Yom HaHu (That Day) may come upon you PITOM + 21:34 Mal 3:1 (suddenly).
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 →