17 For (A)it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.

18 For Christ also (B)suffered[a] (C)once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, (D)that he might bring us to God, being put to death (E)in the flesh but made alive (F)in the spirit, 19 in which[b] he went and (G)proclaimed[c] to the spirits in prison,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 3:18 Some manuscripts died
  2. 1 Peter 3:19 Or the Spirit, in whom
  3. 1 Peter 3:19 Or preached

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