New Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Peter 4:5
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But they will have to give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
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Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
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They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
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who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead.
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who will give an account to Him who is ready to judge [the] living and [the] dead.
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
1 Peter 4
3 For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
4 Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.
5 But they will have to give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
6 That is why the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
7 The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
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