1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is at hand: therefore be of sound mind and sober judgement for prayer.
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
In Context
8Above all things have fervent love for one another: for love covers a multitude of sins.
Cross References
Matthew 24:13But he who endures to the end shall be saved.
Matthew 25:13Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
Mark 13:33Take heed, watch and pray: for you do not know when the time will come.
Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be weighed down with dissipation, and drunkenness, and the cares of this life, so that day comes upon you unexpectedly like a snare.
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 →