1 Peter 4:5
who shall give an account to Him who is ready to judge living and dead,
Young's Literal Translation
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 doth God bring into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or bad.'
Malachi 3:13Hard against Me have been your words, Said Jehovah, and ye have said: 'What have we spoken against Thee?'
Matthew 25:31'And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory;
John 5:22for neither doth the Father judge any one, but all the judgment He hath given to the Son,
Acts 10:42and he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify fully that it is he who hath been ordained by God judge of living and dead —
Romans 14:10And thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand at the tribunal of the Christ;
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 →