1 Peter 4:5
who shall give an account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
In Context
4in which they are astonished you not running to the same excess of wrath, blaspheming;
Cross References
Matthew 25:31But when the Son of min may come in His glory, and all His angels with Him, then will He sit upon the throne of His glory:
John 5:22For the Father judgeth no one, for He hath given all judgment to the Son;
Acts 10:42and He commanded us to preach to the people, and to witness that He is the One ordained of God the Judge of the living and the dead.
Romans 14:10But why do you judge your neighbor, or indeed why do you discount your brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God.
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 →