“ Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. ”
Who shall give account - That is, they shall not do this with impunity. They are guilty in this of a groat wrong and they must answer for it to God. That is ready to judge - That is, “who is...
Our voluntary suffering in the way of righteousness denotes our fellowship with Christ, and our breaking with sin. Let there be therefore no return, on the part of converts, to the evil life of pagan...
give . render. As in Hebrews 13:17 . account . App-121. is ready . See Acts 21:13 . judge . App-122. quick . living. App-170. dead . App-139.
Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. To judge the quick and the dead - They shall give account of these irregularities to Him who is prepared to judge both the...
Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. They who call you to account falsely shall have to give account of themselves for this evil-speaking (Jude 15), an...
The Security of the Faithful in the Approaching Judgment C (ii). 1 Peter 4:1-6 . 'This is your faith: live then in accordance with it. Arm yourselves against your troubles by resolving to be li...
Who shall give account. — Perhaps said with a reference to 1 Peter 3:15 , where these very persons call the Christians to give “account” (the Greek word is the same). The side-purpose of the claus...
Chapter 12 THE LESSONS OF SUFFERING 1 Peter 4:1-6 IT is always hard to swim against the stream; and if the effort be a moral one, the difficulty is not lessened. These early Christians were fi...
the New Life in Christ 1 Peter 4:1-11 The Apostle urges the disciples to make a clean break with sin. As our Lord's grave lay between Him and His earlier life, so there should be a clean break...
The whole force of the argument which the apostle has used in speaking thus of the Christ was to show these saints how through suffering Christ reached a triumph, and to call them to arm themselves w...
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; (2) That he no longer should live...
Who shall give account to him ,.... "To God himself", as the Syriac version reads; of all their blasphemies, and hard speeches spoken by them against God, Christ, the Gospel, and good men, and recei...
Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. Ver. 5. Who shall give account ] Of their ungodly deeds and hard speeches, Judges 1:15 . Angels did their first execu...
For the time past of our life may suffice us Αρκετος ημιν, is sufficient for us; to have wrought the will of the Gentiles The expression is soft, but conveys a very strong meaning, namely, that i...
Christ's suffering in the flesh is set before us then as an example; not His sufferings for us in atonement, which were His alone, but His sufferings in a contrary world, in precious, lowly grace. We...
Comfort of the Servants of God. A. D. 66. 4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not wi...
Who shall give account to him; of their evil speaking as well as of other sins, Judges 1:15 ; it is a metaphor taken from stewards giving account to their masters, Matthew 18:23 Luke 16:2 ....
Christ's Suffering In The Flesh Should Arm Them For The Battle Ahead With One Eye On The Coming Judgment And On The Resurrection ( 1 Peter 4:1-6 ). Peter tells us that by being made one with Chris...
THE CALL TO HOLY LIVING CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES 1 Peter 4:1 . In the flesh .—Or to the flesh; i.e ., so far as the flesh is concerned. The same sphere in which Christian disciples we...
1 Peter 4:1 . Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin: Brethren, we ha...
1 Peter 4:3 . The will of the gentiles. Augustine in his city of God, should be read to see the excess and abominable idolatries of the gentiles. See the notes on Ephesians 5:12 ; Romans 1 . 1...
Expositions 1 Peter 4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh. St. Peter returns, after the digression of 1 Peter 3:19-60 , to the great subject of Christ's example...
Admonitions in View of the Second Coming of Christ. Ceasing from sin:
1 Corinthians 15:51 ; 1 Corinthians 15:52 ; 2 Timothy 4:1 ; Acts 10:42 ; Acts 17:31 ; Ecclesiastes 12:14 ; Ezekiel 18:30 ; James 5:9 ; John 5:22 ; John 5:23 ; John 5:28 ; John 5:29 ; Jud...
Who shall give account — Of this, as well as all their other ways. To him who is ready — So faith represents him now.