Reference

1 Peter 3:19

By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
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For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

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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:

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

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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.

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The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (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:

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Conscious After Death
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Conscious After Death

The verse does not explicitly state that the "spirits in prison" were conscious at the time of the preaching, only that they were preached to. It is possible the preaching occurred at a time when they were conscious, but the verse itself does not confirm their state of consciousness during or after the preaching.