3:18 2 Because Christ also suffered 3 once for sins,
the just for the unjust, 4
to bring you to God,
by being put to death in the flesh
but 5 by being made alive in the spirit. 6
3:19 In it 7 he went and preached to the spirits in prison, 8
3:20 after they were disobedient long ago 9 when God patiently waited 10 in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark 11 a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water. 3:21 And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you 12 – not the washing off of physical dirt 13 but the pledge 14 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 15 with angels and authorities and powers subject to him. 16