1 Peter 4:6

For on this account the announcement is made also to the dead, that they may be judged as persons in the flesh, and may live according to God in the spirit.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5who must give account to God, who is to judge the living and the dead.

7But the end of all things approacheth: therefore be sober, and be wakeful for prayer.

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Cross References

John 5:25Verily, verily, I say to you, That the hour cometh, and even now come, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear, will live.

Romans 8:9Ye, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit; if the Spirit of God truly dwelleth in you. And if in any one there is not the Spirit of Messiah he is none of his.

Galatians 2:19For I, by the law, have become dead to the law, that I might live to God; and I am crucified with the Messiah.

Ephesians 2:3in which deeds we also, formerly, were conversant, in the cravings of our flesh; and we did the pleasure of our flesh, and of our mind, and were altogether the children of wrath, like the rest.

1 Peter 3:19And he preached to those souls, which were detained in Hades,

Revelation 14:18And another angel came out from the altar, having authority over fire. And he cried with a loud voice, to him who had the sharp sickle, saying: Thrust in thy sickle which is sharp, and gather the clusters of the vineyard of the earth, because 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 →

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