1 Peter 4:6
so that although they were rightly judged as far as being sinful human beings is concerned, they could live in the spirit as far as God is concerned.
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In Context
5That's why the good news was shared with those who've already died—
7Everything is coming to an end! So think clearly and stay alert when you pray.
Cross References
John 5:25I tell you the truth: The time is coming—in fact it's here already—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live!
Romans 8:9But you're not following your sinful nature, but the Spirit—if it's true that the Spirit of God is living in you. For those that don't have the Spirit of Christ in them don't belong to him.
Galatians 2:19For through the law I died to the law in order that I could live for God.
Ephesians 2:3All of us were once like that, our behavior determined by the desires of our sinful human nature and our evil way of thinking. Like everyone else, in our nature we were children of anger.
1 Peter 3:19He went to speak to those “imprisoned”
Revelation 14:18He was followed by an angel coming from the altar that was in charge of the fire, who called in a loud voice to the angel with the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and harvest the bunches of grapes from the earth's vine, because its grapes are ripe.”
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 →