1 Peter 4:6
For this purpose the gospel was preached also to the dead, so that, although they have been judged in the flesh as humans, they may live in the spirit the way God does.
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5They will give an account to the one who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
Cross References
John 5:25Truly, truly, I tell you the time is coming, and is now, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
Romans 8:9However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is true that God's Spirit lives in you. But if someone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him.
Galatians 2:19For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live for God.
Ephesians 2:3Once we all lived among these people, fulfilling the evil desires of our sinful nature, and carrying out the desires of the body and of the mind. We were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of humanity.
1 Peter 3:19By the Spirit, he went and preached to the spirits who are now in prison.
Revelation 14:18Still another angel came out from the incense altar, who had authority over the fire. He called out with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and gather in the clusters of grapes from the vines of the earth, for their grapes are now 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 →