1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things draws nigh: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer:
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
In Context
8having above all things fervent love to each other; for love will cover a multitude of sins.
Cross References
Matthew 24:13But he that endures to the end, shall be saved:
Matthew 25:13Watch therefore, for ye know not the day, nor the season in which the Son of man cometh.
Mark 13:33Take heed therefore, watch and pray; for ye know not when the time is:
Luke 21:34Take heed to yourselves, least at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and the cares of life, and so that day should come upon you unawares:
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 →