Godly Living, Suffering & Christ's Accomplishment

1 Peter 3 ISV

13Who will harm you if you are devoted to doing what is good? 

• 14But even if you should suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. 
• “Never be afraid of their threats, and never get upset. 
• 15Instead, exalti the Messiah”j as Lord in your lives.k 
• Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you to explain the hope you have. 
• 16But do thisl gently and respectfully, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak evil of your good conduct in the Messiahm will be ashamed of slandering you. 
• 17After all, if it is the will of God, it is better to suffer for doing right than for doing wrong.

18For the Messiahn also sufferedo for sins once for all,

an innocent person for the guilty,

so that he could bring youp to God.

He was put to death in a mortal body

but was brought to life by the Spirit,

• 19in which he went and made a proclamation to those imprisoned spirits 
• 20who disobeyed long ago in the days of Noah, 
• when God waited patiently while the ark was being built. In it a few, that is, eight persons, were saved by water. 

21Baptism, which is symbolized by that water, now saves you also, not by removing dirt from the body, but by asking God for a clearq conscience based on the resurrection of Jesus, the Messiah,r 22who has gone to heaven and is at the right hand of God, where angels, authorities, and powers have been made subject to him.

Please note in verses 18 and 19 that Jesus paid for sin by taking the wrath of God his Father while he was on the cross, then went to tell the imprisoned spirits to proclaim the gospel. Many if not most of the teachers in the Word of Faith movement say Jesus was punished for sin by the devil and demons went he went to hell to preach. That is an evil, false doctrine as Jesus took on the sin of the world, then his Father poured out his eternal wrath on Jesus.  

                            At The Cross