1 Peter 4:6 — King James Version← Study notes
“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.”
1 Peter 4:6 — Greek Interlinear
Greek · 1 Peter 4:617 words
ℹGreek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.
Church Fathers on 1 Peter 4:6
Who can be otherwise than perplexed by words so profound as these? He says, The gospel was preached to the dead; and if by the dead we understand persons who have departed from the body, I suppose he must mean those described above as unbelieving in the days of Noah, or certainly all those whom Christ found in hell. What, then, is meant by the words, That they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit? For how can they be judged in…
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