1 Peter 4:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

1 Peter 4:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But the end of all things is at hand - This declaration is also evidently designed to support and encourage them in their trials, and to excite them to lead a holy life, by the assurance that the...
1 Peter 4:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(5) But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. (5) He returns to his purpose, using an argument taken from the circumstance of the time. Because the last end...
1 Peter 4:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The conception that the consummation of all things is at hand fills the thought of the section with urgency. All work is to be done in that spirit of earnest, prayerful readiness that all life may...
1 Peter 4:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

is at hand . has drawn near. Compare Matthew 3:2 . be... sober . See Romans 12:3 . watch . See 2 Timothy 4:5 . prayer . App-134.
1 Peter 4:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

7 But, or, moreover, the end of all things is at hand Though the faithful hear that their felicity is elsewhere than in the world, yet, as they think that they should live long, this fa...
1 Peter 4:7 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2406 NEARNESS TO DEATH A MOTIVE TO WATCHFULNESS 1 Peter 4:7 . The end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer . THE office of the Gospel is, not to fil...
1 Peter 4:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. But the end of all things is at hand - I think that here also St. Peter keeps the history of the deluge before his...
1 Peter 4:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

But the end of all things is at hand:— That is, of all things relating to the Jewish temple, city, and nation:—an event, which so strongly corroborated the prophecies, and was on many accounts so a...
1 Peter 4:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. Resuming 1 Peter 4:5 . The end of all things - therefore also of the wantonness ( 1 Peter 4:3-4 ) of th...
1 Peter 4:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
1 Peter 4:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The end of all things is at hand. — Or, hath come nigh; the same word (for instance) as in Matthew 4:17 ; Matthew 26:46 . It is but a repetition in other words of 1 Peter 4:5 , inserted again...
1 Peter 4:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 13 CHRISTIAN SERVICE FOR GOD'S GLORY 1 Peter 4:7-11 "BUT the end of all things is at hand." Well-nigh two thousand years have passed away since the Apostle wrote these words. What are...
1 Peter 4:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
1 Peter 4:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
1 Peter 4:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
1 Peter 4:7 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

PREPARING FOR THE END ‘The end of all things is at hand; be se therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.’ 1 Peter 4:7 As men advance upon the path of life, they find that one thing after anoth...
1 Peter 4:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But the end of all things is at hand ,.... With respect to particular persons, the end of life, and which is the end of all things in this world to a man, is near at hand; which is but as an hand's...
1 Peter 4:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. Ver. 7. Be ye therefore sober, &c. ] To be sober in prayer (saith one) is to pray with due respect to God's...
1 Peter 4:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The end of all things is at hand Of our mortal lives, and of all the joys and sorrows, goods and evils connected therewith, and so of all your wrongs and sufferings. Many commentators indeed unders...
1 Peter 4:7 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
1 Peter 4:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Sobriety, Watchfulness, and Charity; Improvement of Talents. A. D. 66. 7 But the end of all...
1 Peter 4:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

But the end of all things: the last judgment, which will put an end to all the evils as well as good things of this world. Is at hand: see James 5:8,9 . Be ye therefore sober; both in mind,...
1 Peter 4:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Application Of The Previous Theme, And Reminder of the Coming Judgment ( 1 Peter 4:1-19 ). Having portrayed the great and all encompassing victory of Jesus Christ through suffering, Peter now appl...
1 Peter 4:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES 1 Peter 4:7 . End of all things .—Jews naturally thought of the end of organised Judaism as the “end of all things,” The end of one great æon , or dispensation was...
1 Peter 4:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Peter 4:7 Christ's Absence and Return. All the practical exhortations of this passage are founded upon the truth that "the end of all things is at hand." Yet, strange to say, there is hardly an...
1 Peter 4:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 4:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
1 Peter 4:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
1 Peter 4:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

But the end of all things is at hand; be ye, therefore, sober, and watch unto prayer.
1 Peter 4:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 15:24 ; 1 Corinthians 7:29 ; 1 John 2:18 ; 1 John 2:19 ; 1 Peter 1:13 ; 1 Peter 3:7 ; 1 Peter 5:8 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 ; 2 Peter 3:9-11 ; 2 Timothy 4:5 ; Colossians 4:2 ;...
1 Peter 4:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

But the end of all things — And so of their wrongs, and your sufferings. Is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer — Temperance helps watchfulness, and both of them help prayer. Watc...

1 Peter 4:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Peter 4:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 Peter 4:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Peter 4:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Peter 4:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 Peter 4:7 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

1 Peter 4:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Peter 4:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 Peter 4:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Peter 4:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Peter 4:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Peter 4:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Peter 4:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Peter 4:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Peter 4:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Peter 4:7 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

1 Peter 4:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Peter 4:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Peter 4:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Peter 4:7 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Peter 4:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Peter 4:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Peter 4:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Peter 4:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Peter 4:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Peter 4:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Peter 4:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Peter 4:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Peter 4:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Peter 4:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 4:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes