1 Peter 4:6
For good-news was preached even to the dead for this, so that they might indeed be judged according to men in flesh, but live according to God in spirit.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
5Men who will give back an accounting to him who fares readily to judge the living and the dead.
7But the end of all things has approached. Therefore be serious, and be sober for the prayers.
Cross References
John 5:25Truly, truly, I say to you, that an hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
Romans 8:9But ye are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, this man is not of him.
Galatians 2:19For I, through law, died to law, so that I might live to God.
Ephesians 2:3Among whom we also all once behaved in the lusts of our flesh, doing the intentions of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath as also the others.
1 Peter 3:19in which also, having gone, he preached to the spirits in prison
Revelation 14:18And another agent came out from the altar having power over the fire. And he cried out in a great shout to him who has the sharp sickle, saying, Send forth thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the grapevine of the earth, be
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 4:5-7
Comfort of the Servants of God. ( a. d. 66.) 4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: 5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. 6 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. I. Here you have the visible change wrought in those who in the foregoing verse were represented as having been in… Read the whole commentary →