1 Peter 3:19
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison”
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BSBPD
“in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison,”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“in which also to the spirits in prison having gone he did preach,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo 1 Peter 3:19 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Nehemiah 9:30You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.
- Isaiah 42:7to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.
- Isaiah 49:9to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.
- Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
- 1 Peter 1:11trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.
- 1 Peter 4:6That is why the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
- Revelation 19:10So I fell at his feet to worship him. But he told me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who rely on the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
- Revelation 20:7When the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison,
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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