1 Peter 4:7
Now the ende of all things is at hand. Be ye therefore sober, and watching in prayer.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 aboue all thinges haue feruent loue among you: for loue shall couer the multitude of sinnes.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:2For who knoweth what is good for man in the life and in the nomber of the dayes of the life of his vanitie, seeing he maketh them as a shadowe? For who can shewe vnto man what shall be after him vnder the sunne?
Ezekiel 7:2Also thou sonne of man, thus saith the Lord God, An ende is come vnto the lande of Israel: the ende is come vpon the foure corners of the lande.
Matthew 24:13But he that endureth to the ende, he shalbe saued.
Matthew 25:13Watch therfore: for ye know neither the day, nor the houre, when the sonne of man will come.
Mark 13:33Take heede: watch, and praie: for yee knowe not when the time is.
Luke 21:34Take heede to your selues, lest at any time your hearts be oppressed with surfeting and drunkennesse, and cares of this life, and least that day come on you at 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 →