1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:
Revised Version 1895
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 being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:2It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Ezekiel 7:2And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel, An end: the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
Matthew 24:13But he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.
Matthew 25:13Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.
Mark 13:33Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
Luke 21:34But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as 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 →