Parallel Verses

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,

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,

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 For the Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in spirit, 19 in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, 20 which in the time past were disobedient, when once the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being made ready, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.


Cross References

1 Peter 4:6

Because for this cause was the gospel preached also to those that are dead, that they might be judged in flesh according to men, but live in spirit according to God.

Isaiah 42:7

that thou might open the eyes of the blind, that thou might bring out the prisoners from the prison and those that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

Isaiah 49:9

that thou may say to the prisoners, Go forth; and unto those that are in darkness, Show yourselves. Upon the ways shall they be fed, and upon all the high places shall be their pastures.

Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me because the LORD has anointed me; he has sent me to preach good tidings unto those who are cast down; to bind up the wounds of the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those that are bound;

1 Peter 1:11-12

searching when and in what point of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, which announced beforehand the afflictions that were to come upon the Christ, and the glory that should follow them.

Revelation 19:10

And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant and with thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus; worship God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

Revelation 20:7

And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison

Nehemiah 9:30

Yet many years didst thou forbear them and didst protest against them with thy spirit by the hand of thy prophets; yet they did not hear; therefore, thou didst give them into the hand of the peoples of the land.

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