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18 For (A)Christ also suffered for sins (B)once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, so that He might (C)bring you to God, having been put to death (D)in the flesh, but made alive (E)in the [a]spirit; 19 in [b]which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now 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 [c]water.

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  1. 1 Peter 3:18 Or Spirit
  2. 1 Peter 3:19 Or whom
  3. 1 Peter 3:20 The great flood

18 because Christ also suffered once for sins in our place,[a] the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you[b] to God. He was put to death in flesh[c] but was made alive in spirit,[d] 19 in which he also went and made an announcement to the spirits in prison. 20 These spirits disobeyed long ago, when God’s patience was waiting in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In this ark a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 3:18 Some witnesses to the text omit in our place.
  2. 1 Peter 3:18 Some witnesses to the text read us.
  3. 1 Peter 3:18 Here flesh is a reference to Christ’s state of humiliation. See Romans 1:3; 1 Timothy 3:16.
  4. 1 Peter 3:18 Here spirit is a reference to Christ’s state of exaltation. See Romans 1:4; 1 Timothy 3:16.