1 Peter 4:5
Who shall render an account unto him who is holding in readiness to judge living and dead;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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
Ecclesiastes 12:14For, every work, will God bring into judgment, with every hidden thing,—whether good, or evil.
Malachi 3:13Stout against me, have been your words, saith Yahweh,—and yet ye say, What have we spoken, one to another, against thee?
Matthew 25:31But, whensoever the Son of Man shall come in his glory, and all the messengers with him, then will he sit on his throne of glory;
John 5:22For neither doth, the Father, judge anyone,—but, all the judging, hath given unto the Son:
Acts 10:42And he charged us to proclaim unto the people, and bear full witness, that—This, is he that hath been marked out by God to be judge of living and dead.
Romans 14:10But, thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? Aye! and thou, why dost thou despise thy brother? For, all of us, shall present ourselves unto 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 →