Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

in which also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,

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 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 Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit; 19 in which also He went and preached to the spirits in prison, 20 to disobeying ones, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared (in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water);

Cross References

1 Peter 4:6

For to this end the gospel was preached also to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the Spirit.

Isaiah 42:7

to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness out of the prison house.

Isaiah 49:9

that You may say to the prisoners, Go out! To those who are in darkness, Show yourselves! They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on Me; because Jehovah has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

1 Peter 1:11-12

searching for what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ made clear within them, testifying beforehand of the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow.

Revelation 19:10

And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said to me, See, do not do it! I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers who 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 have expired, Satan will be loosed out of his prison.

Nehemiah 9:30

And many years You had patience with them, and testified against them by Your Spirit, by Your prophets, but they would not give ear. And You gave them into the hand of the people of the lands.

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