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 it he went and preached to the spirits in prison,
John 5:25
I tell you the solemn truth, a time 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

Romans 8:2
For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
Galatians 2:19
For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.
Galatians 5:25
If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with the Spirit.
Ephesians 2:3
among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest
Titus 3:3
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.
Revelation 14:18
Another angel, who was in charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to the angel who had the sharp sickle, "Use your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes off the vine of the earth, because its grapes are now ripe."

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