1 Peter 3:18-21

Suffering for Righteousness' Sake

¹⁸ For Christ also _m suffered _{1 n} once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, _o that he might bring us to God, being put to death _p in the flesh but made alive _q in the spirit, ¹⁹ in which ₂ he went and _q proclaimed ₃ to the spirits in prison, ²⁰ because ₄ they formerly did not obey, _r when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, _s while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, _t eight persons, were brought safely through water. ²¹ Baptism, which corresponds to this, _u now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but _v as an appeal to God for a good conscience, _w through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

1. Cross References
   1 Peter 2:21
   For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.
   1 Peter 4:1
   Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin.
   Romans 4:25
   Who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
   
2. Cross References
   Hebrews 9:26
   For then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
   Hebrews 9:28
   So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
   
3. Cross References
   Romans 5:2
   Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Peter 4:1
   Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin.
   Colossians 1:22
   He has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him.
   2 Corinthians 13:4
   For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.
   
5. Cross References
   1 Peter 4:6
   For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.
   
6. Cross References
   1 Peter 3:18
   For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.
   
7. Cross References
   Genesis 6:3
   Then the Lord said, "My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.
   Genesis 6:5
   The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
   Genesis 6:13 - 14
   And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
   
8. Cross References
   Hebrews 11:7
   By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
   
9. Cross References
   Genesis 7:1
   Then the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
   Genesis 7:7
   And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
   Genesis 7:23
   He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.
   Genesis 8:18
   So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.
   2 Peter 2:5
   If he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly.
   
10. Cross References
    Mark 16:16
    Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
    Acts 16:33
    And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.
    Romans 6:3 - 6
    Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
    Titus 3:5
    He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.
    
11. Cross References
    Romans 10:10
    For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
    
12. Cross References
    1 Peter 1:3
    Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.