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 5:8–9Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
• 1 Pet 1:13Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
• Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
• 2 Tim 4:5But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
• Heb 10:25Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
• Col 4:2Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
• 1 Th 5:6–8Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
• Titus 2:12Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
• Mark 14:37–38And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?
• Rom 12:12Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
• Ezek 7:6An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
• Rev 16:15Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
• Phil 4:5Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
• Eph 6:18Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
• Rom 13:11–12And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
• Matt 24:42Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
• Luke 22:46And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
• 1 Cor 7:29But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
• Matt 24:13–14But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
• 2 Pet 3:9–11The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
• 1 Cor 15:24Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
• Jer 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
• 1 Jn 2:18–19Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
• 1 Pet 3:7Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
• Mark 13:33–37Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
• Luke 21:36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
• Matt 26:38–41Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
• Matt 25:13Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
• Eccl 7:2It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
• Ezek 7:2–3Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

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