Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

To them

1 Peter 3:19
in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison,
John 5:25
Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

But

Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
Galatians 2:19
For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God.
Galatians 5:25
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
Ephesians 2:3
Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
Titus 3:3
For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
Revelation 14:18
Then another angel, the one who has power over fire, came out from the altar; and he called with a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, “Put in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, because her grapes are ripe.”