Verse 5.— Who shall give an account. These unconverted ones who speak evil of us will be required to give an account, not only for the excesses in which they indulge, but also for the wrongs they do to us and for all their evil speaking against us. To him who is ready to judge. The account the Gentiles will be required to give will be to one appointed as Judge; even to Jesus Christ. Paul says: "He will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath appointed; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead" (Acts 17:31). Jesus will be the Judge. It is so ordained. God has appointed him to be the Judge. The quick and the dead. By the quick the apostle means the living. By the dead he refers to those who once lived on the earth, and have passed away in the ordinary and natural manner. All that once lived, as well as the living, will be judged.