1 Peter 3:13-22

13 1Who is there to harm you if you prove zealous for what is good?
14 But even if you should 2suffer for the sake of righteousness, 3you are blessed. 4AND DO NOT FEAR THEIR INTIMIDATION, AND DO NOT BE TROUBLED,
15 but sanctify 5Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready 6to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the 7hope that is in you, yet 8with gentleness and 9reverence;
16 and keep a 10good conscience so that in the thing in which 11you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.
17 For 12it is better, 13if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.
18 For 14Christ also died for sins 15once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might 16bring us to God, having been put to death 17in the flesh, but made alive 18in the spirit;
19 in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison,
20 who once were disobedient, when the 19patience of God 20kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of 21the ark, in which a few, that is, 22eight 23persons, were brought safely through the water.
21 24Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you-25not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a 26good conscience -through 27the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
22 28who is at the right hand of God, 29having gone into heaven, 30after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.

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Cross References 30

  • 1. Proverbs 16:7
  • 2. Matthew 5:10; 1 Peter 2:19f; 1 Peter 4:15
  • 3. James 5:11
  • 4. Isaiah 8:12; 1 Peter 3:6
  • 5. 1 Peter 1:3
  • 6. Colossians 4:6
  • 7. 1 Peter 1:3
  • 8. 2 Timothy 2:25
  • 9. 1 Peter 1:17
  • 10. 1 Timothy 1:5; Hebrews 13:18; 1 Peter 3:21
  • 11. 1 Peter 2:12, 15
  • 12. 1 Peter 2:20; 1 Peter 4:15
  • 13. Acts 18:21; 1 Peter 1:6; 1 Peter 2:15; 1 Peter 4:19
  • 14. 1 Peter 2:21
  • 15. Hebrews 9:26, 28; Hebrews 10:10
  • 16. Romans 5:2; Ephesians 3:12
  • 17. Colossians 1:22; 1 Peter 4:1
  • 18. 1 Peter 4:6
  • 19. Romans 2:4
  • 20. Genesis 6:3, 5, 13
  • 21. Hebrews 11:7
  • 22. Genesis 8:18; 2 Peter 2:5
  • 23. Acts 2:41; 1 Peter 1:9, 22; 1 Peter 2:25; 1 Peter 4:19
  • 24. Acts 16:33; Titus 3:5
  • 25. Hebrews 9:14; Hebrews 10:22
  • 26. 1 Timothy 1:5; Hebrews 13:18; 1 Peter 3:16
  • 27. 1 Peter 1:3
  • 28. Mark 16:19
  • 29. Hebrews 4:14; Hebrews 6:20
  • 30. Romans 8:38; Hebrews 1:6

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