New American Standard Bible 1995

1 Peter 3:16-20

16 1and keep a 2good conscience so that in the thing in which 3you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.

17For 4it is better, 5if 6God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

18For 7Christ also died for sins 8once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might 9bring us to God, having been put to death 10in the flesh, but made alive 11in the 12spirit;

19in 13which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison,

20who once were disobedient, when the 14patience of God 15kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of 16the ark, in which a few, that is, 17eight 18persons, were brought safely through the 19water.

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Notes

1. 1 Peter 3:16 Lit having a good ↩
2. 1 Peter 3:16 1 Tim 1:5; Heb 13:18; 1 Pet 3:21 ↩
3. 1 Peter 3:16 1 Pet 2:12, 15 ↩
4. 1 Peter 3:17 1 Pet 2:20; 4:15f ↩
5. 1 Peter 3:17 Acts 18:21; 1 Pet 1:6; 2:15; 4:19 ↩
6. 1 Peter 3:17 Lit the will of God ↩
7. 1 Peter 3:18 1 Pet 2:21 ↩
8. 1 Peter 3:18 Heb 9:26, 28; 10:10 ↩
9. 1 Peter 3:18 Rom 5:2; Eph 3:12 ↩
10. 1 Peter 3:18 Col 1:22; 1 Pet 4:1 ↩
11. 1 Peter 3:18 1 Pet 4:6 ↩
12. 1 Peter 3:18 Or Spirit ↩
13. 1 Peter 3:19 Or whom ↩
14. 1 Peter 3:20 Rom 2:4 ↩
15. 1 Peter 3:20 Gen 6:3, 5, 13f ↩
16. 1 Peter 3:20 Heb 11:7 ↩
17. 1 Peter 3:20 Gen 8:18; 2 Pet 2:5 ↩
18. 1 Peter 3:20 Acts 2:41; 1 Pet 1:9, 22; 2:25; 4:19 ↩
19. 1 Peter 3:20 I.e. the great flood ↩

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