Chiasm
1 Peter 3:18–22
1 Peter 3:18–223 matched frames
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God,
- B being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
- C 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
- 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
- C' 21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us
- C 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
- B' (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
- B being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
- A' 22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
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