1 Peter 4:6
For on this account the dead also have been evangelized; that they might be judged as men in the flesh, and live with Aloha in the Spirit.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
5they who shall give account to Aloha, who will judge the dead and the living.
7BUT the end of all cometh; therefore be sober, and watch unto prayer.
Cross References
John 5:25Amen, amen, I say to you, That the hour cometh and also now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of Aloha; and they who hear shall live
Romans 8:9But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if truly the Spirit of Aloha dwelleth in you. But if a man have not the Spirit of the Meshiha, this (man) is not his.
Galatians 2:19For I by the law to the law am dead, that unto Aloha I may live:
Ephesians 2:3in those works in which we also walked from the first in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of our flesh and of our mind, and were the sons of wrath fully as the rest.
1 Peter 3:19he preached unto those souls who were held in sheul,
Revelation 14:18And another angel came forth from the altar who had authority over the fire, and he cried with a great cry to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, Send forth thy sharp sickle, and reap the clusters of the vintage of the earth; for the grapes of the earth 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 →