American Standard Version
1 Peter 4:5
5who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead.
1 Peter 4:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
- New International Version (NIV)But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
- English Standard Version (ESV)but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
Context of 1 Peter 4:5
3For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries: 4wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead. 6For unto this end was the gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. 7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:
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οἳ ἀποδώσουσιν λόγον τῷ ἑτοίμως ἔχοντι κρῖναι ζῶντας καὶ νεκρούς.Read the interlinear
Cross-references for 1 Peter 4:5
- Malachi 3:13Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?
- Matthew 12:36And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
- Luke 16:2And he called him, and said unto him, What is this that I hear of thee? render the account of thy stewardship; for thou canst be no longer steward.
- Romans 14:12So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God.
- Jude 1:14And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
- Psalms 1:6For Jehovah knoweth the way of the righteous; But the way of the wicked shall perish.
- Ecclesiastes 12:14For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
- Ezekiel 18:30Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord Jehovah. Return ye, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
- Matthew 25:31But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory:
- John 5:22For neither doth the Father judge any man, but he hath given all judgment unto the Son;
- Acts 10:42And he charged us to preach unto the people, and to testify that this is he who is ordained of God to be the Judge of the living and the dead.
- Acts 17:31inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
- Romans 14:10But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or thou again, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God.
- 1 Corinthians 15:51Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed,
- 2 Timothy 4:1I chargetheein the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus, who shall judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
- James 5:9Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.
Commentaries on 1 Peter 4:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5To judge the quick and the dead - They shall give account of these irregularities to Him who is prepared to judge both the Jews and the Gentiles. The Gentiles, previously to the preaching of the Gospel among them, were reckoned to be dead in trespasses and sins, Ephesians 2:1-5; under the sentence of death, because they had sinned. The Jews had at least, by their religious profession, a name to live; and by that profession were bound to give to God.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Who 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 prepared to judge” - ͂ͅ ̔́ ̓́ tō hetoimōs echontiSee the phrase used in Acts 21:13; “I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem.” 2 Corinthians 12:14; “the third time I am ready to come to you.” Compare the word “ready” - ̔ hetoimos- in Matthew…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-6Peter urges Christians to make a definite separation from their former sinful way of life. Christ freed us from that way of life through his suffering.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. They who now call you to account falsely, shall have to give account themselves for this very evil-speaking (Jude 15), and be condemned justly. ready--very speedily (1Pe 4:7; 2Pe 3:10). Christ's coming is to the believer always near.Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Peter 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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