1 Peter 3:18
Christ also suffered once for sins. He who is righteous suffered for us, who were unrighteous, so that he would bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but he was made alive by the Spirit.
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17It is better, if God desires, that you suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
19By the Spirit, he went and preached to the spirits who are now in prison.
Cross References
Numbers 7:15He gave as a burnt offering one young bull, one ram, and a one-year-old male lamb.
Daniel 9:26After the sixty-two sevens, the anointed one will be destroyed and will have nothing. The army of a coming ruler will destroy the city and the holy place. Its end will come with a flood, and there will be war even to the end. Desolations have been decreed.
Matthew 27:19While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him and said, “Have nothing to do with that innocent man. For I have suffered much today because of a dream I had about him.”
Acts 3:14You rejected the Holy and Righteous One, and you asked instead for a murderer to be released to you.
Romans 1:4Through the Spirit of holiness he was declared with power to be the Son of God by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 5:2Through him we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the certain hope of the glory of God.
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 3:17-18
Good Conscience and Good Conversation. ( a. d. 66.) 16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. 17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. The confession of a Christian's faith cannot credibly be supported but by the two means here specified— a good conscience and a good conversation. conscience is good when it does its office well, when it is… Read the whole commentary →