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

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To them

And it was then that he went and preached to the imprisoned spirits,

In truth I tell you that a time is coming, indeed it is already here, when the Dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and when those who listen will live.

But

For through your union with Christ Jesus, the Law of the life- giving Spirit has set you free from the Law of Sin and Death.

I, indeed, through Law became dead to Law, in order to live for God.

Since our Life is due to the Spirit, let us rule our conduct also by the Spirit.

And it was among them that we all once lived our lives, indulging the cravings of our earthly nature, and carrying out the desires prompted by that earthly nature and by our own thoughts. Our very nature exposed us to the Divine Wrath, like the rest of mankind.

There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.

Then another angel came out of the altar; he had power over fire, and he called in a loud voice to the angel that had the sharp sickle-- 'Take your sharp sickle, and gather the bunches from the Vine of Earth, for its grapes are ripe.'