1 Peter 4:7

Since the end of all things is near, believers should be clear-minded, self-controlled, and devoted to prayer. It grounds sober, prayerful living in the nearness of Christ's return.

Cross-references · 31

• Jas 5:8–9You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.
• 1 Pet 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
• Luke 21:34But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
• 2 Tim 4:5But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
• Heb 10:25Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
• Col 4:2Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful,
• 1 Th 5:6–8So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.
• Titus 2:12It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
• Mark 14:37–38Then Jesus returned and found them sleeping. “Simon, are you asleep?” He asked. “Were you not able to keep watch for one hour?
• Rom 12:12Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
• Ezek 7:6The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. Behold, it has come!
• Rev 16:15“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”
• Phil 4:5Let your gentleness be apparent to all. The Lord is near.
• Eph 6:18Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.
• Rom 13:11–12And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
• Matt 24:42Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.
• Luke 22:46“Why are you sleeping?” He asked. “Get up and pray so that you will not enter into temptation.”
• 1 Cor 7:29What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;
• Matt 24:13–14But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
• 2 Pet 3:9–11The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.
• 1 Cor 15:24Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power.
• Jer 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
• 1 Jn 2:18–19Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.
• 1 Pet 3:7Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
• Mark 13:33–37Be on your guard and stay alert! For you do not know when the appointed time will come.
• Luke 21:36So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”
• Matt 26:38–41Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.”
• Matt 25:13Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
• Eccl 7:2It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.
• Ezek 7:2–3“O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

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