King James Version
1 Peter 4:5 in the King James Version says “Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.” — study this verse from 1 Peter chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.”
1 Peter 4:5 · KJV
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“shall give”
G591to give away, i.e., up, over, back, etc. (in various applications)
“account”
G3056something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a
“to him that is”
G2192to hold (used in very various applications, literally or figuratively, direct or remote; such as possession; ability, contiuity, relation, or conditio
“and”
G2532and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
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