1 Peter 4:11

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 1 Peter 4:1-11

the New Life in Christ 1 Peter 4:1-11 The Apostle urges the disciples to make a clean break with sin. As our Lord’s grave lay between Him and His earlier life, so there should be a clean break between our life as believers and the earth-bound life, which was dominated by lawless passions. Sometimes God employs the acid of persecution or suffering to eat away the bonds that bind us to our past. Let us accept these with a willing mind. The one condition of reigning with the enthroned Christ is... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 1 Peter 4:1-19

The whole force of the argument which the apostle has used in speaking thus of the Christ was to show these saints how through suffering Christ reached a triumph, and to call them to arm themselves with His mind. Let them act by ceasing from sin and all the gratifications of the flesh which had characterized their past. Injunctions followed the argument. The light of the future is turned on the past, "The end of all things is at hand." The effect of this certainty is then stated in its... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 1 Peter 4:7-11

THE COMING OF THE KINGDOM‘The end of all things is at hand … watch unto prayer.… Have fervent charity.… Use hospitality.… Speak as the oracles of God … that God in all things may be glorified.’ 1 Peter 4:7-1 Kings : These verses teach us how our earthly calling is to be made a preparation for the complete coming of the kingdom of heaven. And four conditions of this completion are here mentioned. I. Prayer. ( 1 Peter 4:7).—The complete coming of the Kingdom of God is this—that God may be all... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 4:1-19

Application Of The Previous Theme, And Reminder of the Coming Judgment (1 Peter 4:1-19 ). Having portrayed the great and all encompassing victory of Jesus Christ through suffering, Peter now applies the ideas directly to his readers. As previously with the world of Noah and the disobedient angels, judgment is hovering on the horizon. Christians are therefore to live in the light both of His sufferings and of the coming judgment. This is first stressed in 1 Peter 4:1-6, and then expanded on in... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 4:7-11

In The Light Of The Coming Judgment And Resurrection They are To Live With A Sense Of Urgency (1 Peter 4:7-11 ). In view of the urgency of the times therefore they are to live out their Christian lives accordingly, revealing true love and hospitality, ministering to one another by means of the gifts given to them, and speaking as from God. And all so that God might be glorified through Jesus Christ the eternal King. read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 4:10-11

‘According as each has received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God; if any man speaks, as it were oracles of God; if any man ministers, as of the strength which God supplies,’ The same earnest love will also ensure our right use of whatever gifts God has given us. Having received gifts through the loving compassion and unmerited goodness of God, we are to dispense them with loving compassion and goodness. We are to use them as good stewards... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 4:11

‘That in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.’ For Peter’s final concern is that in all things, in both our words and our actions, glory might continually be brought to God through the continual magnifying of Jesus Christ in what we say and do, and rightly so, he says, for it is to Him that all glory and dominion belongs for ever and ever. This doxology is not a signing off. Rather it is demonstrating how overwhelmed... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 4:7-11

1 Peter 4:7-1 Kings : . The conception that the consummation of all things is at hand fills the thought of the section with urgency. All work is to be done in that spirit of earnest, prayerful readiness that all life may prove a practical thanksgiving to God as it reflects the life of Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 4:8 . love covereth a multitude of sins ( cf. 1 Corinthians 13:5 f., James 5:20 *). “ The love of Christ covers sins ( Luke 7:47); and love of the brethren, flowing as it does from... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Peter 4:11

If any man speak; viz. authoritatively, and by way of office, as a public teacher in the church; though this may be accommodated to private Christians in their charitative instructions of others, yet it seems especially meant of teaching officers. Let him speak as the oracles of God: this relates not only to the manner of speaking, that it be with faith in that word the preacher speaketh, and a due reverence of it, but to the matter likewise, that he preach nothing but the pure word of God, and... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Peter 4:7-11

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES1 Peter 4:7. End of all things.—Jews naturally thought of the end of organised Judaism as the “end of all things,” The end of one great æon, or dispensation was nigh at hand, and this fact was properly used as an incentive to watchfulness Man is not capable of attaching a definite meaning to the term, “end of all things.” He can understand the “end of his things.” Sober.—letter, “be of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer.” Keep a good check on all bodily desires... read more

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