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1 Peter 3:19

Jesus Christ

17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

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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,

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  • 1 Peter 4:6

    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.

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  • Isaiah 61:1

    The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

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  • Isaiah 42:7

    To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

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  • Isaiah 49:9

    That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

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  • Nehemiah 9:30

    Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.

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  • Revelation 20:7

    And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

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  • 1 Peter 1:11–12

    Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

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  • Revelation 19:10

    And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

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