1 Peter 3:18
because also Christ once for sin did suffer — righteous for unrighteous — that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
17for [it is] better doing good, if the will of God will it, to suffer, than doing evil;
19in which also to the spirits in prison having gone he did preach,
Cross References
Numbers 7:15one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering;
Daniel 9:26And after the sixty and two weeks, cut off is Messiah, and the city and the holy place are not his, the Leader who hath come doth destroy the people; and its end [is] with a flood, and till the end [is] war, determined [are] desolations.
Matthew 27:19And as he is sitting on the tribunal, his wife sent unto him, saying, 'Nothing — to thee and to that righteous one, for many things did I suffer to-day in a dream because of him.'
Acts 3:14and ye the Holy and Righteous One did deny, and desired a man — a murderer — to be granted to you,
Romans 1:4who is marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of sanctification, by the rising again from the dead,) Jesus Christ our Lord;
Romans 5:2through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the 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 →