18 For Christ also suffered(A) for sins once for all,[a](B)
the righteous for the unrighteous,[b]
that He might bring you[c] to God,(C)
after being put to death in the fleshly realm[d](D)
but made alive in the spiritual realm.[e]

19 In that state[f] He also went and made a proclamation to the spirits(E) in prison[g] 20 who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah(F) while an ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people[h](G)—were saved through water.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 3:18 Other mss read died for sins on our behalf; other mss read died for our sins; other mss read died for sins on your behalf
  2. 1 Peter 3:18 Or the Righteous One in the place of the unrighteous many
  3. 1 Peter 3:18 Other mss read us
  4. 1 Peter 3:18 Or in the flesh
  5. 1 Peter 3:18 Or in the spirit, or in the Spirit
  6. 1 Peter 3:19 Or In whom, or At that time, or In which
  7. 1 Peter 3:19 Perhaps fallen supernatural beings or angels; 2Pt 2:4; Jd 6
  8. 1 Peter 3:20 Lit souls

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