Bible Verses About The Spirits In Prison And Christ's Descent

By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

Direct Bible text naming the spirits in prison

For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

Related Bible passage about the gospel preached to the dead.

(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

Direct Bible passage for descent into the lower parts of the earth.

Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

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Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

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Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

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For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

Nearby verse that frames the passage about Christ being made alive in the Spirit

Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)

Bible text used for descent into the abyss language.

Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.

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The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

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The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

Isaiah prison-release text often used typologically in descent discussions.

He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.

Bible passage for the soul not being left in hell.

Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

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Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

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Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

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For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

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And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

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And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

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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.

Completes the Noah context of 1 Peter 3:19-20

But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,

Bible prison-release text used as background, not a direct Christ-descent passage.

Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Parallel Bible passage from Psalm 16 / Acts 2.

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Psalm language of being brought up from Sheol.

And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.