1 Peter 3:19 “in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison”

1 Peter 3:19

in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

in whom he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,

American Standard Version

in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison,

Geneva Bible 1599

By the which hee also went, and preached vnto the spirits that are in prison.

Darby Translation

in which also going he preached to the spirits [which are] in prison,

Young's Literal Translation

in which also to the spirits in prison having gone he did preach,

Bible in Basic English

By whom he went to the spirits in prison, preaching to those

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Cross references

“By which”

1 Peter 4:6 Nehemiah 9:30 Revelation 19:10 1 Peter 1:11 1 Peter 1:12

1 Peter 4:6 · BSB

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.

Nehemiah 9:30 · BSB

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.

Revelation 19:10 · BSB

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 prophec…

1 Peter 1:11 · BSB

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.

1 Peter 1:12 · BSB

It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, when they foretold the things now announced by those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look in…

“in”

Isaiah 61:1 Isaiah 42:7 Isaiah 49:9 Revelation 20:7

Isaiah 61:1 · BSB

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,

Isaiah 42:7 · BSB

to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

Isaiah 49:9 · BSB

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.

Revelation 20:7 · BSB

When the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

18For 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,

20who 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.

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