1 Peter 3:19

By the Spirit, he went and preached to the spirits who are now in prison.

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By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

In Context

18Christ 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.

20They were disobedient when the patience of God was waiting in the days of Noah, in the days of the building of an ark, and God saved a few people—eight souls—by means of the water.

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Cross References

Isaiah 42:7to open the eyes of the blind, to release the prisoners from the dungeon, 1 and from the house of confinement those who sit in darkness. 1

Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me 1 to proclaim good news to the afflicted. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, 1 to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison for those who are bound. 1

1 Peter 4:6For this purpose the gospel was preached also to the dead, so that, although they have been judged in the flesh as humans, they may live in the spirit the way God does.

Revelation 20:7When the thousand years come to an end, Satan will be released from his prison.

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 3:19-21

Christ's Sufferings. ( a. d. 66.) 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. Here, I. The example of Christ is proposed as an argument for… Read the whole commentary →

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