1 Peter 3:18–4:6

18  for Christ indeed has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in flesh, but made alive in the Spirit, 19  in which also going he preached to the spirits which are in prison, 20  heretofore disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was preparing, into which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:

21  which figure also now saves you, even baptism, not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the demand as before God of a good conscience, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22  who is at the right hand of God, gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being subjected to him.

Chapter 4

1  Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, do ye also arm yourselves with the same mind; for he that has suffered in the flesh has done with sin, 2  no longer to live the rest of his time in the flesh to men’s lusts, but to God’s will. 3  For the time past is sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed idolatries.

4  Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same sink of corruption, speaking injuriously of you; 5  who shall render account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. 6  For to this end were the glad tidings preached to the dead also, that they might be judged, as regards men, after the flesh, but live, as regards God, after the Spirit.