1 Peter 4:6
Now it was for this very purpose that the gospel was preached to those who are now dead, so that though they were judged in the flesh by human standards they may live spiritually by God’s standards.
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- Titus 3:3-7 : 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. 4 But“when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared, 5 he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us in full measure through Jesus Christ our Savior. 7 And so, since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.”
- Eph 2:3-5 : 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… 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, 5 even though we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ– by grace you are saved!–
- Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
- Rom 8:9-9 : 9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness. 11 Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.
- 1 Pet 4:1-2 : 1 So, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same attitude, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin, 2 in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.
- 1 Pet 3:19 : 19 In it he went and preached to the spirits in prison,
- Gal 5:25 : 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with the Spirit.
- John 5:25-26 : 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. 26 For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,
- Matt 24:9 : 9 Persecution of Disciples“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.
- 1 Cor 11:31-32 : 31 But if we examined ourselves, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned with the world.
- Gal 2:19 : 19 For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.
- Rev 14:18 : 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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18 Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.
19 In it he went and preached to the spirits in prison,
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8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
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10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.
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27 And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,
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13 The Lord Returns for Believers Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.
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15 For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep.
16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
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14 For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.
15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.
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2 So I considered those who are dead and gone more fortunate than those who are still alive.
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2 For we had good news proclaimed to us just as they did. But the message they heard did them no good, since they did not join in with those who heard it in faith.
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2 in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.
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16 For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.
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18 Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.
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2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
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21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.
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19 For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.