18 For Christ also suffered(A) for sins once for all,(B) the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God.(C) He was put to death in the flesh[a](D) but made alive by the Spirit,[b] 19 in which[c] he also went and made proclamation to the spirits(E) in prison 20 who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah(F) while the ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people[d](G)—were saved through water.

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  1. 3:18 Or by the flesh, or in the fleshly realm
  2. 3:18 Or in the spirit, or in the Spirit, or in the spiritual realm
  3. 3:19 Or by whom, or in whom, or at that time
  4. 3:20 Or souls

18 For (A)Christ also [a]suffered for sins (B)once for all time, the just for the unjust, so that He might (C)bring us to God, having been put to death (D)in the flesh, but made alive (E)in the [b]spirit; 19 in [c]which He also went and made proclamation to the spirits in prison, 20 who once were disobedient when the (F)patience of God (G)kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of (H)the ark, in which a few, that is, (I)eight (J)persons, were brought safely through the water.

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  1. 1 Peter 3:18 One early ms died
  2. 1 Peter 3:18 Or Spirit
  3. 1 Peter 3:19 Or whom