⁴ For this reason, they are surprised that you do not plunge into the same overflowing river of filth with them, and they slander you. ⁵ They will have to give an account to the one who is ready to judge the living and the dead. ⁶ In fact, it was for this reason that the gospel was preached also to those who are dead, so that they might be judged the way people are judged in flesh and that they might live the way God lives in spirit.