Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

In which, even unto the spirits in prison, he went and proclaimed, -

New American Standard Bible

in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison,

King James Version

By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

Holman Bible

In that state He also went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison

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,

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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
By
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

ὅς ἥ ὅ 
Hos 
Usage: 980


and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

he went
πορεύομαι 
Poreuomai 
go, depart, walk, go way,
Usage: 101

and preached
κηρύσσω 
Kerusso 
Usage: 49

πνεῦμα 
Pneuma 
Usage: 334

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

Context Readings

Suffer For Doing What Is Good

18 Because, Christ also, once for all, concerning sins, died, - Just in behalf of unjust, - in order that he might introduce us unto God; being put to death, indeed, in flesh, but made alive in spirit, - 19 In which, even unto the spirits in prison, he went and proclaimed, - 20 Spirits unyielding at one time, when the longsuffering of God was holding forth a welcome in the days of Noah, there being in preparation an ark - going into which, a few, that is eight, souls, were brought safely through by means of water, -

Cross References

1 Peter 4:6

For, unto this end, even unto the dead, was the glad-message delivered, - in order that they might be judged, indeed, according to men in flesh, but might live according to God in spirit.

Isaiah 42:7

To open eyes that are blind, - To bring forth Out of the dungeon the captive Out of the prison, the dwellers in darkness.

Isaiah 49:9

Saying To them who are hound Go forth, To them who are in darkness, Shew yourselves, - By the roads, shall they graze, And on all bare places, shall be their pasture:

Isaiah 61:1

The spirit of My Lord Yahweh, is upon me, - Because Yahweh Hath anointed me to tell good tidings to the oppressed, lath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, To proclaim To captives, liberty, To them who are bound, the opening of the prison;

1 Peter 1:11-12

Searching into what particular, or what manner, of season the Spirit of Christ which was in them was pointing to, when witnessing beforehand as to - The sufferings, for Christ, and the glories, after these, -

Revelation 19:10

And I fell down at his feet, to do him homage; and he saith unto me - See! thou do it not! A fellow-servant, am I, of thee and of thy brethren who have the witness of Jesus: unto God, do homage! For, the witness of Jesus, is the spirit of the prophecy.

Revelation 20:7

And, as soon as the thousand years, shall be ended, the Accuser shall be loosed out of his prison,

Nehemiah 9:30

And thou didst suffer many years to pass over them, and didst testify against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets, yet did they not give ear, - therefore didst thou deliver them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

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