1 Peter 4:6 - English Majority Text Version 2009

⁶ Unto this [end] was the gospel proclaimed also to those who are dead, in order that they might be judged according to men in [the] flesh, but [that] they might live according to God in [the] spirit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ For this is why the good news (the Gospel) was preached [in their lifetime] even to the dead, that though judged in fleshly bodies as men are, they might live in the spirit as God does.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ 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.

Common English Bible

⁶ Indeed, this is the reason the good news was also preached to the dead. This happened so that, although they were judged as humans according to human standards, they could live by the Spirit according to divine standards.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ For because of this, the Gospel was also preached to the dead, so that they might be judged, certainly, just like men in the flesh, yet also, so that they might live according to God, in the Spirit.

1 Peter 4:6 Cross References

Matthew 24:9

Then they will hand you over to tribulation and they will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations, on account of My name.

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

Galatians 2:19

For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.

Galatians 5:25

If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

1 Peter 1:12

To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to you they were ministering these things, which things were now announced to you by those who proclaimed the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven-things which angels desire to look into.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also suffered once to atone for sins, [the] just for [the] unjust, that He might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit,

1 Peter 3:19

by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,

Revelation 14:18

And another angel came out from the altar, having authority over the fire, and he called with a loud cry to the [one] having the sharp sickle, saying, "Thrust in your sharp sickle and gather the grape clusters of the vine of the earth, because the grapes are ripe."