1 Peter 4:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,

📖 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 having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
• 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,
• Jas 5:8-9 : 8 be patient, ye also; establish your hearts, because the presence of the Lord hath drawn nigh; 9 murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.
• 1 Thess 5:6-8 : 6 so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober, 7 for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken, 8 and we, being of the day -- let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet -- a hope of salvation,
• 2 Tim 4:5 : 5 And thou -- watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,
• Titus 2:12 : 12 teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,
• Heb 10:25 : 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain `is', but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.
• Luke 22:46 : 46 and he said to them, `Why do ye sleep? having risen, pray that ye may not enter into temptation.'
• Mark 14:37-38 : 37 And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith to Peter, `Simon, thou dost sleep! thou wast not able to watch one hour! 38 Watch ye and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation; the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'
• Luke 21:34 : 34 `And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,
• Luke 21:36 : 36 watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'
• Matt 25:13 : 13 `Watch therefore, for ye have not known the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man doth come.
• Eccl 7:2 : 2 Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth `it' unto his heart.
• Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved `it' so, And what do they at its latter end?
• Ezek 7:6 : 6 An end hath come, come hath the end, It hath waked for thee, lo, it hath come.
• Matt 24:13-14 : 13 but he who did endure to the end, he shall be saved; 14 and this good news of the reign shall be proclaimed in all the world, for a testimony to all the nations; and then shall the end arrive.
• Mark 13:33-37 : 33 Take heed, watch and pray, for ye have not known when the time is; 34 as a man who is gone abroad, having left his house, and given to his servants the authority, and to each one his work, did command also the porter that he may watch; 35 watch ye, therefore, for ye have not known when the lord of the house doth come, at even, or at midnight, or at cock-crowing, or at the morning; 36 lest, having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping; 37 and what I say to you, I say to all, Watch.'
• Eph 6:18 : 18 through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints --
• Phil 4:5 : 5 let your forbearance be known to all men; the Lord `is' near;
• Col 4:2 : 2 In the prayer continue ye, watching in it in thanksgiving;
• 2 Pet 3:9-9 : 9 the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation, 10 and it will come -- the day of the Lord -- as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up. 11 All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts?
• 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with `them', according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel -- to the wife -- imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.
• Rev 16:15 : 15 `lo, I do come as a thief; happy `is' he who is watching, and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they may see his unseemliness,' --
• Matt 24:42 : 42 `Watch ye therefore, because ye have not known in what hour your Lord doth come;
• Rom 12:12 : 12 in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;
• 1 Cor 7:29 : 29 And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;
• 1 Cor 15:24 : 24 then -- the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when he may have made useless all rule, and all authority and power --
• Rom 13:11-12 : 11 And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already `is' to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer `is' our salvation than when we did believe; 12 the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;
• Ezek 7:2-3 : 2 An end, come hath the end on the four corners of the land. 3 Now `is' the end unto thee, And I have sent Mine anger upon thee, And judged thee according to thy ways, And set against thee all thine abominations.
• Matt 26:38-41 : 38 then saith he to them, `Exceedingly sorrowful is my soul -- unto death; abide ye here, and watch with me.' 39 And having gone forward a little, he fell on his face, praying, and saying, `My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou.' 40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and he saith to Peter, `So! ye were not able one hour to watch with me! 41 watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'
• 1 John 2:18-19 : 18 Little youths, it is the last hour; and even as ye heard that the antichrist doth come, even now antichrists have become many -- whence we know that it is the last hour; 19 out of us they went forth, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but -- that they might be manifested that they are not all of us.