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1 Peter 4:7

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

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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 end…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

But the end of all things is at hand - I think that here also St. Peter keeps the history of the deluge before his eyes, finding a parallel to the state of the Jews in his own time in that of the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

1 Peter 4:7-11

We have here an awful position or doctrine, and an inference drawn from it. The position is that the end of all things is at hand. The miserable destruction of the Jewish church and nation foretold by…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

But the end of all things is at hand The words are spoken, as are nearly all the eschatological utterances of the New Testament, within the horizon of the Apostle's knowledge, and it had not been…