Parallel Verses
Williams New Testament
in which He went and preached to the spirits in prison,
New American Standard Bible
in
King James Version
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
Holman Bible
In that state
International Standard Version
in which he went and made a proclamation to those imprisoned spirits
A Conservative Version
in which also, having gone, he preached to the spirits in prison
American Standard Version
in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison,
Amplified
in which He also went and preached to the spirits now in prison,
An Understandable Version
It was by the Holy Spirit that He went to preach [See Eph. 2:17] to the [now departed] spirits [of pre-Flood people who are now] in prison [i.e., Hades].
Anderson New Testament
in which- also he went and preached to the spirits in prison,
Bible in Basic English
By whom he went to the spirits in prison, preaching to those
Common New Testament
in which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison,
Daniel Mace New Testament
by which he went with guardian spirits to preach to
Darby Translation
in which also going he preached to the spirits which are in prison,
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
By which, also, he made proclamation to the spirits in prison,
Godbey New Testament
by which also having gone he proclaimed to the spirits in prison;
Goodspeed New Testament
In it Enoch went and preached even to those spirits that were in prison,
John Wesley New Testament
but raised to life by the spirit, By which likewise he went and preached to the spirits in prison,
Julia Smith Translation
In which also having gone, he proclaimed to the spirits in prison;
King James 2000
By whom also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
Lexham Expanded Bible
in which also he went [and] proclaimed to the spirits in prison,
Modern King James verseion
in which also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
In which spirit, he also went and preached unto the spirits that were in prison,
Moffatt New Testament
(It was in the Spirit that Enoch also went and preached to the imprisoned spirits
Montgomery New Testament
(It was in spirit that he went and preached the Word to the spirits who were in prison,
NET Bible
In it he went and preached to the spirits in prison,
New Heart English Bible
in which he also went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison,
Noyes New Testament
in which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison,
Sawyer New Testament
in which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison,
The Emphasized Bible
In which, even unto the spirits in prison, he went and proclaimed, -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
by which also he went and preached to those spirits imprisoned;
Twentieth Century New Testament
And it was then that he went and preached to the imprisoned spirits,
Webster
By which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison;
Weymouth New Testament
in which He also went and proclaimed His Message to the spirits that were in prison,
World English Bible
in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,
Worrell New Testament
in Whom, also, going, He preached to the spirits in prison,
Worsley New Testament
by which also He went and preached to the spirits now in prison;
Youngs Literal Translation
in which also to the spirits in prison having gone he did preach,
Themes
Antediluvians » Noah preaches to
the Deluge » The wicked warned of
Hell » Disembodied spirits » Jesus visited
Leaders » Support of unfaithful » Affliction of
Ministers » Work of preaching » Examples of
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 Peter 3:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
Suffer For Doing What Is Good
18 For Christ Himself, once for all, died for our sins, the Innocent for the guilty to bring us to God, being put to death in physical form but made alive in the Spirit, 19 in which He went and preached to the spirits in prison, 20 who had once been disobedient, while God's patience was awaiting in the days when Noah was preparing an ark, in which a few people-- eight, to be exact -- were brought safely through the water.
Cross References
1 Peter 4:6
This is why the good news was preached to the dead too, that they may be judged in their physical nature as men are, but live in the Spirit as God does.
1 Peter 1:11-12
earnestly trying to find out the time, and the nature of the times, which the Spirit of the Christ within them pointed to, in foretelling the sufferings of the Christ and the glory that should follow them.
Revelation 19:10
Then I fell before his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "You must take care not to do that. I am only a fellow-slave of yours and of your brothers who hold to the testimony borne by Jesus. Worship God. For the testimony borne by Jesus is the inspiring spirit of prophecy."
Revelation 20:7
When the thousand years have ended, Satan will be let loose from his prison.