1 Peter 4:5

Judgment

³ For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

⁴ Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.

But they will have to give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

⁶ That is why the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

⁷ The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: But they will have to give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
KJV: Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
WEB: They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
ASV: who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead.
DARBY: who shall render account to him who is ready to judge [the] living and [the] dead.
BLB: who will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

ÅB: men de skal gjøre regnskap for ham som står ferdig til å dømme levende og døde.
OTB: men de må stå til regnskap for Ham som er beredt til å dømme både levende og døde.
B1930: men de skal gjøre regnskap for ham som står ferdig til å dømme levende og døde.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

James 5:9
Do not complain about one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door!
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2 Timothy 4:1
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom:
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Acts 10:42
And He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that He is the One appointed by God to judge the living and the dead.
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Romans 14:10–12
Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.
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John 5:22–23
Furthermore, the Father judges no one, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,
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Matthew 12:36
But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.
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Jude 1:14–15
Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones
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Acts 17:31
For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
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