1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things approacheth: therefore be sober, and be wakeful for prayer.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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 above all things, have fervent love one towards another; for love covereth a multitude of sins.
Cross References
Matthew 24:13But he that shall persevere to the end, will have life.
Matthew 25:13Watch, therefore, seeing ye know not the day nor the hour.
Mark 13:33Take heed, watch, and pray; for ye know not when the time is.
Luke 21:34Take heed to yourselves, that your hearts be, at no time, stupefied by gluttony and ebriety and worldly care; and so that day come upon you unawares.
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 →