1 Peter 4:8

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - 1 Peter 4:1-8

1 Peter CHRISTIAN ASCETICISM 1Pe_4:1-8 . Christian morality brought two new things into the world--a new type of life in sharp contrast with the sensuality rife on every side, and a new set of motives powerfully aiding in its realisation. Both these novelties are presented in this passage, which insists on a life in which the spirit dominates the flesh, and is dominated by the will of God, and which puts forward purely Christian ideas as containing the motives for such a life. The facts of... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 1 Peter 4:1-11

the New Life in Christ 1 Peter 4:1-11 The Apostle urges the disciples to make a clean break with sin. As our Lord’s grave lay between Him and His earlier life, so there should be a clean break between our life as believers and the earth-bound life, which was dominated by lawless passions. Sometimes God employs the acid of persecution or suffering to eat away the bonds that bind us to our past. Let us accept these with a willing mind. The one condition of reigning with the enthroned Christ is... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 1 Peter 4:1-19

The whole force of the argument which the apostle has used in speaking thus of the Christ was to show these saints how through suffering Christ reached a triumph, and to call them to arm themselves with His mind. Let them act by ceasing from sin and all the gratifications of the flesh which had characterized their past. Injunctions followed the argument. The light of the future is turned on the past, "The end of all things is at hand." The effect of this certainty is then stated in its... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 1 Peter 4:7-11

THE COMING OF THE KINGDOM‘The end of all things is at hand … watch unto prayer.… Have fervent charity.… Use hospitality.… Speak as the oracles of God … that God in all things may be glorified.’ 1 Peter 4:7-1 Kings : These verses teach us how our earthly calling is to be made a preparation for the complete coming of the kingdom of heaven. And four conditions of this completion are here mentioned. I. Prayer. ( 1 Peter 4:7).—The complete coming of the Kingdom of God is this—that God may be all... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 1 Peter 4:8

INTENSE CHARITY‘Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.’ 1 Peter 4:8 The charity about which St. Peter and St. Paul wrote is love; that love for each other, perfect, honest, intense (that is the word that brings out the true meaning of the original), which is the outcome of true and perfect love for God. It is love for every fellow-creature upon whom we see stamped the Image of the One Father—be he stranger or kinsman, friend or... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 4:1-19

Application Of The Previous Theme, And Reminder of the Coming Judgment (1 Peter 4:1-19 ). Having portrayed the great and all encompassing victory of Jesus Christ through suffering, Peter now applies the ideas directly to his readers. As previously with the world of Noah and the disobedient angels, judgment is hovering on the horizon. Christians are therefore to live in the light both of His sufferings and of the coming judgment. This is first stressed in 1 Peter 4:1-6, and then expanded on in... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 4:7-11

In The Light Of The Coming Judgment And Resurrection They are To Live With A Sense Of Urgency (1 Peter 4:7-11 ). In view of the urgency of the times therefore they are to live out their Christian lives accordingly, revealing true love and hospitality, ministering to one another by means of the gifts given to them, and speaking as from God. And all so that God might be glorified through Jesus Christ the eternal King. read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 4:8-9

‘Above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins, using hospitality one to another without murmuring,’ Instead of indulging in ‘lasciviousness’ (‘lustful living’ - 1 Peter 4:3) they were to be fervent (‘at full gallop’) in Christian love among themselves, because love counters much sin. And instead of indulging in wine-bibbing and revelry (1 Peter 4:3) they were to offer true hospitality towards one another in full unity and harmony, ‘without... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 4:7-11

1 Peter 4:7-1 Kings : . The conception that the consummation of all things is at hand fills the thought of the section with urgency. All work is to be done in that spirit of earnest, prayerful readiness that all life may prove a practical thanksgiving to God as it reflects the life of Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 4:8 . love covereth a multitude of sins ( cf. 1 Corinthians 13:5 f., James 5:20 *). “ The love of Christ covers sins ( Luke 7:47); and love of the brethren, flowing as it does from... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Peter 4:8

And above all things: see the like expression, James 5:12, and on the same occasion, Colossians 3:14. Have fervent charity; not only labour after charity diligently and carefully, but let it be fervent, intense, strong. For charity shall cover the multitude of sins; partly by preventing anger, railings, revilings, contentions, that they break not out, and partly by repressing, concealing, pardoning them when they do break out, 1 Corinthians 13:7; see James 5:20. read more

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