1 Peter 4:7
The ende of all thinges is at honde. Be ye therfore discrete and sober that ye maye be apte to prayers.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
In Context
8But above all thinges have fervet love amonge you. For love covereth the multitude of synnes.
Cross References
Matthew 24:13But he that endureth to the ende the same shalbe safe.
Matthew 25:13Watche therefore: for ye knowe nether the daye nor yet the houre when the sonne of man shall come.
Mark 13:33Take hede watche and praye for ye knowe not when the tyme ys.
Luke 21:34Take hede to youre selves lest youre hertes be overcome with surfettinge and dronkennes and cares of this worlde: and that that daye come on you vnwares.
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 →