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They are astonished and think it very queer that you do not now run hand in hand with them in the same excesses of dissipation, and they abuse [you].

But they will have to give an account to Him Who is ready to judge and pass sentence on the living and the dead.

For this is why the good news (the Gospel) was preached [[a]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.

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  1. 1 Peter 4:6 Most commentators interpret this preaching to be a past event, done not after these people had died, but while they were still alive.

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