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Now your former friends wonder why you have stopped running around with them, and they curse you for it. But they will have to answer to God, who judges the living and the dead. The good news has even been preached to the dead,[a] so that after they have been judged for what they have done in this life, their spirits will live with God.

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  1. 4.6 the dead: Either people who died after becoming followers of Christ or the people of Noah's day (see 3.19).

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