1 Peter 4:5
who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
Revised Version 1895
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 God shall bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.
Malachi 3:13Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein have we spoken against thee?
Matthew 25:31But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory:
John 5:22For neither doth the Father judge any man, but he hath given all judgment unto the Son;
Acts 10:42And he charged us to preach unto the people, and to testify that this is he which is ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
Romans 14:10But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or thou again, why dost thou set at nought thy 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 →