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1 Peter 4:1-19

The End of All Things Is at Hand

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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.

Bible book
1 Peter
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1 Peter
Musical styles
Electronic
[Verse 1 - clipped march] Enough of the old night: the flood of appetite, the loud cup, the altar built for lawless desire. Arm the mind with the mind of Christ. Spend what remains on the will of God. [Refrain - watch call] The end of all things is at hand. Be sober. Watch and pray. [Verse 2 - pressure rises] Old companions call the change strange; their mouths throw ash at your name. Every voice will answer to the Judge ready for the living and the dead. So let love burn longer than offense; open the door without a grudge. [Refrain - percussion widens] The end of all things is at hand. Be sober. Watch and pray. [Verse 3 - stewardship litany] What gift came to your hands? Pass it on as manifold grace. If you speak, carry the oracles faithfully. If you serve, lean on the strength God gives. Let every task return its glory through Jesus Christ to God. [Breakdown - voice and bass] Do not call the fire strange. Do not borrow shame from suffering. Yet never crown the murderer, thief, evildoer, or meddler with Christ's name. Let judgment begin where God's house stands. [Refrain - altered] The end of all things is at hand. Rejoice when his glory is revealed. Commit your soul to the faithful Creator, keep doing good. Keep doing good. [Outro - three strikes] Watch. Pray. Do good.

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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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