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 also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
• 1 Pet 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ —
• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
• Luke 21:34“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
• 2 Tim 4:5But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
• Heb 10:25not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.
• Col 4:2Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
• 1 Th 5:6–8so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.
• Titus 2:12instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;
• Mark 14:37–38He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you watch one hour?
• Rom 12:12rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
• Ezek 7:6An end has come. The end has come! It awakes against you. Behold, it comes.
• Rev 16:15“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”
• Phil 4:5Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
• Eph 6:18with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
• Rom 13:11–12Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
• Matt 24:42Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.
• Luke 22:46and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
• 1 Cor 7:29But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;
• Matt 24:13–14But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
• 2 Pet 3:9–11The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
• 1 Cor 15:24Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.
• Jer 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
• 1 Jn 2:18–19Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.
• 1 Pet 3:7You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
• Mark 13:33–37Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.
• Luke 21:36Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
• Matt 26:38–41Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.”
• Matt 25:13Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
• 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 should take this to heart.
• Ezek 7:2–3“You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of Israel, ‘An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land.

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