1 Peter 3:18

Webster's Bible (1833)

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

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  • 1 Pet 4:1 : 1 Forasmuch then as Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;
  • Heb 9:28 : 28 so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
  • Heb 9:26 : 26 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
  • 1 Pet 4:6 : 6 For to this end was the Gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.
  • 1 John 1:9 : 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
  • Rom 4:25 : 25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
  • Rom 8:3 : 3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
  • 2 Cor 13:4 : 4 For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
  • Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"
  • Col 1:21-22 : 21 You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, 22 yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,
  • Jas 5:6 : 6 You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.
  • 1 Pet 2:21-24 : 21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you{TR reads "us" instead of "you"} an example, that you should follow his steps, 22 who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth." 23 Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously; 24 who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
  • Eph 2:16-18 : 16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby. 17 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
  • Gal 1:4 : 4 who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father--
  • Rom 8:11 : 11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
  • 2 Cor 1:24 : 24 Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.
  • 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
  • Rom 5:2 : 2 through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
  • Rom 5:6-8 : 6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die. 8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
  • Acts 3:14 : 14 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
  • Acts 22:14 : 14 He said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.
  • Rom 1:4 : 4 who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
  • Isa 53:4-6 : 4 Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  • Dan 9:26 : 26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One{"Anointed One" can also be translated "Messiah" (same as "Christ").} shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end of it shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
  • Zech 9:9 : 9 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; Lowly, and riding on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
  • Matt 27:19 : 19 While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him."
  • Matt 27:24 : 24 So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it."

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  • 1 Pet 3:19
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    19in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,

  • 1 Pet 3:17
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    17For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

  • 1 Pet 4:1-2
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    1Forasmuch then as Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;

    2that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

  • 1 Pet 2:23-24
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    23Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;

    24who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

  • Rom 6:10-11
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    10For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

    11Thus also consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • 1 Pet 4:6
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    6For to this end was the Gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.

  • Heb 9:26-28
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    26or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

    27Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

    28so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

  • 1 Pet 2:21
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    21For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you{TR reads "us" instead of "you"} an example, that you should follow his steps,

  • Rom 5:6-8
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    6For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

    7For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.

    8But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

  • 1 Cor 15:3
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    3For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

  • 2 Cor 5:21
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    21For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

  • Col 1:22
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    22yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,

  • Rom 3:24-25
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    24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

    25whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice{or, a propitiation}, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance;

  • 1 Pet 1:19-21
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    19but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, the blood of Christ;

    20who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,

    21who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

  • 2 Tim 1:10
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    10but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel.

  • Rom 6:7-8
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    7For he who has died has been freed from sin.

    8But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;

  • 2 Cor 4:10-11
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    10always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

    11For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

  • Acts 3:18
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    18But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

  • Heb 10:10
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    10by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

  • Eph 2:1
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    1You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

  • 1 John 2:2
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    2And he is the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation-- the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

  • 1 Pet 3:21
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    21This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you-- not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

  • Rom 4:25
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    25who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

  • 2 Cor 5:14-15
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    14For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

    15He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

  • 1 Thess 5:10
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    10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

  • 2 Thess 1:5
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    5This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you also suffer.

  • Col 2:13
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    13You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

  • Gal 1:4
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    4who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father--

  • Rom 8:3
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    3For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

  • Titus 2:14
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    14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

  • Rom 8:10
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    10If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

  • Col 3:3
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    3For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

  • Heb 7:27
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    27who doesn't need, like those high priests, to daily offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.

  • Heb 13:12
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    12Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.

  • Heb 2:9
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    9But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

  • Titus 3:3
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    3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.