1 Peter 4:7

The end of all things has drawn near. Therefore be alert and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.

Text-Critical English NT

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 this is the reason the gospel was preached even to the dead, so that, though they have been judged in the flesh as men are, they might live in the spirit as God does.

8Above all, maintain a deep love for one another, because love will cover a multitude of sins.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:13but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Matthew 25:13Therefore keep watch, for you do not know the day or the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

Mark 13:33Be on guard; stay alert and pray! For you do not know when the time is coming.

Luke 21:34“Watch yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and that day come upon you 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 →

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