1 Peter 4:7
BUT the end of all cometh; therefore be sober, and watch unto prayer.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
In Context
8And before every thing have ardent love for one another; for love covereth a multitude of sins.
Cross References
Matthew 24:13But he who shall persevere unto the end,-he shall live.
Matthew 25:13Be wakeful therefore, for you know not that day nor the hour.
Mark 13:33Look: be watchful and pray; for you know not when the time is.
Luke 21:34But take heed to yourselves, that at any time your hearts be not heavy with excess and drunkenness, and the care of the world, and unawares shall come upon you that day.
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 →