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1 Peter 4:5 KJV
1 Peter · chapter 4 · verse 5
Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.1 Peter 4:5 · King James Version
1 Peter 4:5 in context
3For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
4Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
5Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
6For 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.
7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
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Key words (Strong's)
- accountlogosof speech, a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea, what someone…G3056 →
- readyhetoimōsreadily, to be readyG2093 →
- judgekrinōto separate, put asunder, to pick out, select, choose, to approve, esteem, to prefer, to…G2919 →
- quickzaōto live, breathe, be among the living , to enjoy real life, to have true life and worthy…G2198 →
- giveapodidōmito deliver, to give away for one s own profit what is one s own, to sell, to pay off…G591 →
- deadnekrosproperly, one that has breathed his last, lifeless, deceased, departed, one whose soul is…G3498 →
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I. Here you have the visible change wrought in those who in the foregoing verse were represented as having been in the former part of their life very wicked. They no longer run on in the same courses, or with the same companions, as they used to do.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-6