Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
in which also, having gone, he 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
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,
Williams New Testament
in which He went and preached to the spirits 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 Because Christ also once suffered for sins, a righteous man for unrighteous men, so that he might bring you to God. Having indeed been killed in flesh, but made alive in spirit, 19 in which also, having gone, he preached to the spirits in prison 20 who were disobedient formerly, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah who prepared an ark in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water.
Cross References
1 Peter 4:6
For good-news was preached even to the dead for this, so that they might indeed be judged according to men in flesh, but live according to God in spirit.
Isaiah 42:7
to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison-house.
Isaiah 49:9
saying to those who are bound, Go forth to those who are in darkness. Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pasture shall be on all bare heights.
Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of lord LORD is upon me, because LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, {and recovering of sight to the blind (LXX/NT)}, and
1 Peter 1:11-12
searching for what, or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ in them indicated, predicting the sufferings in Christ, and the glories after these things.
Revelation 19:10
And I fell down before his feet to worship him. And he says to me, See thou not. I am a fellow bondman of thee and thy brothers, those who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophe
Revelation 20:7
And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be loosed out of his prison.
Nehemiah 9:30
Yet many years thou bore with them, and testified against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets. Yet they would not give ear. Therefore thou gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.