3:18 7 Because Christ also suffered 8 once for sins,
the just for the unjust, 9
to bring you to God,
by being put to death in the flesh
but 10 by being made alive in the spirit. 11
3:19 In it 12 he went and preached to the spirits in prison, 13
3:20 after they were disobedient long ago 14 when God patiently waited 15 in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark 16 a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water. 3:21 And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you 17 – not the washing off of physical dirt 18 but the pledge 19 of a good conscience to God – through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 3:22 who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God 20 with angels and authorities and powers subject to him. 21