1 Peter 3:17-22
Holman Christian Standard Bible
17 For it is better to suffer(A) for doing good, if that should be God’s will,[a] than for doing evil.
18 For Christ also suffered(B) for sins once for all,[b](C)
the righteous for the unrighteous,[c]
that He might bring you[d] to God,(D)
after being put to death in the fleshly realm[e](E)
but made alive in the spiritual realm.[f]
19 In that state[g] He also went and made a proclamation to the spirits(F) in prison[h] 20 who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah(G) while an ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people[i](H)—were saved through water. 21 Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you (not the removal of the filth of the flesh,(I) but the pledge[j] of a good conscience toward God) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.(J) 22 Now that He has gone into heaven,(K) He is at God’s right hand(L) with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.(M)
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- 1 Peter 3:17 Lit if the will of God should will
- 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
- 1 Peter 3:18 Or the Righteous One in the place of the unrighteous many
- 1 Peter 3:18 Other mss read us
- 1 Peter 3:18 Or in the flesh
- 1 Peter 3:18 Or in the spirit, or in the Spirit
- 1 Peter 3:19 Or In whom, or At that time, or In which
- 1 Peter 3:19 Perhaps fallen supernatural beings or angels; 2Pt 2:4; Jd 6
- 1 Peter 3:20 Lit souls
- 1 Peter 3:21 Or the appeal
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