1 Peter 3:18

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16 ^ahaving a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.

17 For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

Christ’s Suffering and Ours

18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring¹ us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,

19 by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,

20 who formerly were disobedient,¹ when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

21 ^aThere is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism ^b(not the removal of the filth of the flesh, ^cbut the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

22 who has gone into heaven and ^ais at the right hand of God, ^bangels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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1 Peter 3:18

Christ also hath once suffered - See the notes on Romans 5:6; Hebrews 9:28 (note).

Put to death in the flesh - In his human nature.

But quickened by the Spirit - That very dead body revived by the power of his Divinity. There are various opinions on the meaning of this verse, with which I need not trouble the reader, as I have produced that which is most likely.

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