1 Peter 4:6

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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.

To them

1 Peter 3:19

John 5:25

But

Bible References

To them

In that state He also went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison

“I assure you: An hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

But

because the Spirit’s law of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

For through the law I have died to the law, so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ

Since we live by the Spirit, we must also follow the Spirit.

We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

Yet another angel, who had authority over fire, came from the altar, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Use your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from earth’s vineyard, because its grapes have ripened.”