Lyrics · 1 Peter
The End of All Things Is at Hand
1 Peter 4:1-19
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This song belongs to the 1 Peter collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.
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- 1 Peter
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About the passage
1 Peter 4: The name that brings reproach, and the care that holds its bearers
The fourth chapter begins with a break that former companions find strange. Peter describes the old pattern of excess as time already spent, and the believers' refusal to rejoin it now draws slander. The living and the dead alike remain before God's judgment. Yet the approaching end does not produce spectacle or date setting. It produces sober prayer, fervent love, hospitality without complaint, and gifts handled as stewardship of God's varied grace. The chapter then sharpens its distinctions around suffering. Reproach for the name of Christ is not placed in the same category as consequences for murder, theft, evil conduct, or intrusive meddling. Judgment begins at God's own house, so the community is not pictured as watching reckoning from a safe distance. The final movement is quiet but weighty: those suffering according to God's will entrust their lives to a faithful Creator while continuing in well doing.
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