1 Peter 4:5
who must give account to God, who is to judge the living and the dead.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 25:31And when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all his holy angels with him, then will he sit upon the throne of his glory.
John 5:22For neither doth the Father judge any one, but hath given all judgment to the Son:
Acts 10:42And he commanded us to proclaim and testify to the people, that he is appointed of God to be judge of the living and of the dead.
Romans 14:10But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or, why dost thou despise thy brother? For we must all stand before the judgment seat of Messiah,
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 →