1 Peter 3:19
17 For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
18 For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison
20 who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.
21 And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison
- KJV
- By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
- WEB
- in whom he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,
- ASV
- in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison,
- DARBY
- in which also going he preached to the spirits [which are] in prison,
- BLB
- in whom also, having gone, He preached to the spirits in prison
- ÅB
- og i denne gikk han og bort og preket for åndene som var i varetekt,
- OTB
- i hvilken han gikk og forkynte for åndene i fangenskap,
- B1930
- og i denne gikk han og bort og preket for åndene som var i varetekt,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Peter 4:6
That is why the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
Read in contextIsaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
Read in contextIsaiah 42:7
to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.
Read in contextIsaiah 49:9
to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.
Read in contextNehemiah 9:30
You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.
Read in contextRevelation 20:7
When the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison,
Read in context1 Peter 1:11–12
trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.
Read in contextRevelation 19:10
So I fell at his feet to worship him. But he told me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who rely on the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
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