1 Peter 4:6

American Standard Version (1901)

For unto this end was the gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

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  • Titus 3:3-7 : 3 For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. 4 But when the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love toward man, appeared, 5 not by works [done] in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
  • Eph 2:3-5 : 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:-- 4 but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),
  • Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
  • Rom 8:9-9 : 9 But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
  • 1 Pet 4:1-2 : 1 Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; 2 that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
  • 1 Pet 3:19 : 19 in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison,
  • Gal 5:25 : 25 If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.
  • John 5:25-26 : 25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live. 26 For as the Father hath life in himself, even so gave he to the Son also to have life in himself:
  • Matt 24:9 : 9 Then shall they deliver you up unto tribulation, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all the nations for my name's sake.
  • 1 Cor 11:31-32 : 31 But if we discerned ourselves, we should not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
  • Gal 2:19 : 19 For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.
  • Rev 14:18 : 18 And another angel came out from the altar, he that hath power over fire; and he called with a great voice to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Send forth thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.

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  • 1 Pet 4:4-5
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    4wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you] :

    5who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead.

  • 1 Pet 3:18-19
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    18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

    19in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison,

  • Rom 14:9
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    9For to this end Christ died and lived [again], that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

  • Rom 6:7-8
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    7for he that hath died is justified from sin.

    8But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

  • 1 Cor 15:29
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    29Else what shall they do that are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?

  • Rom 8:10-11
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    10And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness.

    11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

  • Acts 10:42
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    42And he charged us to preach unto the people, and to testify that this is he who is ordained of God [to be] the Judge of the living and the dead.

  • 2 Tim 4:1
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    1I charge [thee] in the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus, who shall judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:

  • Eph 2:1
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    1And you [did he make alive], when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,

  • Rom 6:10-11
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    10For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

    11Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.

  • 2 Cor 4:10-12
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    10always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.

    11For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

    12So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

  • Heb 9:27
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    27And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this [cometh] judgment;

  • 1 Pet 4:17
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    17For the time [is come] for judgment to begin at the house of God: and if [it begin] first at us, what [shall be] the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?

  • 1 Thess 5:10
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    10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

  • 1 Thess 4:13-16
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    13But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope.

    14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

    15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.

    16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

  • Rom 8:13
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    13for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

  • 2 Cor 5:14-15
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    14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;

    15and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.

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    12Now if Christ is preached that he hath been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

  • Rev 20:13
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    13And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

  • 1 Pet 4:7
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    7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:

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    2Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;

  • Rom 8:5-6
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    5For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

    6For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:

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    25Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live.

  • Heb 4:2
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    2For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard.

  • Acts 17:31
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    31inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

  • 2 Tim 1:10
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    10but hath now been manifested by the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,

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    2that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

  • Rom 4:24
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    24but for our sake also, unto whom it shall be reckoned, who believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

  • 1 Cor 15:16
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    16For if the dead are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised:

  • 1 Pet 1:21
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    21who through him are believers in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

  • Acts 24:15
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    15having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection both of the just and unjust.

  • 1 Cor 15:18
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    18Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

  • 1 Pet 1:12
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    12To whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto you, did they minister these things, which now have been announced unto you through them that preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

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    35But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they come?

  • 1 Pet 1:25
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    25But the word of the Lord abideth for ever. And this is the word of good tidings which was preached unto you.

  • Rom 6:2
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    2God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?

  • 1 Cor 15:21
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    21For since by man [came] death, by man [came] also the resurrection of the dead.

  • Gal 2:19
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    19For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.