1 Peter 4:7

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Πάντων δὲ τὸ τέλος ἤγγικεν: σωφρονήσατε οὖν, καὶ νήψατε εἰς τὰς προσευχάς.

Transliteration

But of all things the telos ēngiken: sōphronēsate therefore, and nēpsate into the proseuchas.

Grammar Details

• *telos*: nominative, neuter, singular - end/goal
• *ēngiken*: perfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - has drawn near
• *sōphronēsate*: aorist active imperative, 2nd person plural - be sound-minded/sensible
• *nēpsate*: aorist active imperative, 2nd person plural - be sober/alert
• *proseuchas*: accusative, feminine, plural - prayers

Word Meanings

• *telos*: end/goal/purpose/conclusion/fulfillment
• *ēngiken*: has drawn near/has approached/is at hand
• *sōphronēsate*: be sound of mind/be sensible/be self-controlled/be reasonable
• *nēpsate*: be sober/be clear-minded/be alert/be watchful

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 1:13 : 13 ¶ Wherefore 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 5:8 : 8 ¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
• Jas 5:8-9 : 8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. 9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
• 1 Thess 5:6-8 : 6 ¶ Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
• 2 Tim 4:5 : 5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
• Titus 2:12 : 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
• Heb 10:25 : 25 Not 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.
• Luke 22:46 : 46 And said unto them, ‹Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.›
• Mark 14:37-38 : 37 And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, ‹Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?› 38 ‹Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly› [is] ‹ready, but the flesh› [is] ‹weak.›
• Luke 21:34 : 34 ‹And 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.›
• Luke 21:36 : 36 ‹Watch 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 25:13 : 13 ‹Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.›
• Eccl 7:2 : 2 [It 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.
• Jer 5:31 : 31 The 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?
• Ezek 7:6 : 6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
• Matt 24:13-14 : 13 ‹But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.› 14 ‹And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.›
• Mark 13:33-37 : 33 ‹Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.› 34 [For the Son of man is] ‹as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.› 35 ‹Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:› 36 ‹Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.› 37 ‹And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.›
• Eph 6:18 : 18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
• Phil 4:5 : 5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord [is] at hand.
• Col 4:2 : 2 ¶ Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
• 2 Pet 3:9-9 : 9 ¶ The 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. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 ¶ [Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation and godliness,
• 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 Likewise, 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.
• Rev 16:15 : 15 ‹Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed› [is] he that watcheth, ‹and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.›
• Matt 24:42 : 42 ‹Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.›
• Rom 12:12 : 12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
• 1 Cor 7:29 : 29 But this I say, brethren, the time [is] short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
• 1 Cor 15:24 : 24 Then [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.
• Rom 13:11-12 : 11 ¶ And 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. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
• Ezek 7:2-3 : 2 Also, 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. 3 Now [is] the end [come] upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.
• Matt 26:38-41 : 38 Then saith he unto them, ‹My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.› 39 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, ‹O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou› [wilt]. 40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, ‹What, could ye not watch with me one hour?› 41 ‹Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed› [is] ‹willing, but the flesh› [is] ‹weak.›
• 1 John 2:18-19 : 18 ¶ Little 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. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would [no doubt] have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.