1 Peter 4:7

But the end of all things is now close at hand: therefore be sober-minded and temperate, so that you may give yourselves to prayer.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

In Context

6For it is with this end in view that the Good News was proclaimed even to some who were dead, that they may be judged, as all mankind will be judged, in the body, but may be living a godly life in the spirit.

8Above all continue to love one another fervently, for love throws a veil over a multitude of faults.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:13but those who stand firm to the End shall be saved.

Matthew 25:13"Keep awake therefore; for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Mark 13:33Take care, be on the alert, and pray; for you do not know when it will happen.

Luke 21:34"But take heed to yourselves, lest your souls be weighed down with self-indulgence and drunkenness or the anxieties of this life, and that day come upon you, suddenly, like a falling trap;

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 →

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