1 Peter 3:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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:

The just

1 John 1:9

That

Ephesians 2:16

Being

Colossians 1:21

Bible References

The just

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered greatly today in a dream because of him."

But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

Then he said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth.

You have condemned and put to death the righteous man; he does not resist you.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

That

and might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, by which he put to death the hostility.

Being

Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

who was delivered to death for our sins and was raised for our justification.

Not that we lord it over your faith; but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.

For he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God for you.

And although you were once alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,