1 Peter 3:21

After which very type also you are saved in baptism, not while you cleanse the body from filth, but while you make confession of 6 Aloha with a pure conscience, and of the resurrection of Jeshu Meshiha;

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

20those who before were disobedient in the days of Nuch; while the long-suffering of Aloha commanded that he should make the ark, upon the hope of their conversion, and eight souls only entered therein, and were saved in the waters.

22who is exalted unto heaven, and is at the right hand of Aloha, and unto whom are subject angels and authorities and powers.

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Cross References

Mark 16:16He who believeth and is baptized is saved; and he who believeth not is condemned.

Acts 2:38Shemun saith to them, Repent, and be baptized, every man of you, in the name of the Lord Jeshu, for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 22:16And now why delayest thou? Arise, baptize, and be washed from thy sins, while thou callest his Name.

Romans 6:3Or do you not know, that they who have been baptized into Jeshu Meshiha, into his death have been baptized?

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 3:19-21

Christ's Sufferings. ( a. d. 66.) 18 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: 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20 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. Here, I. The example of Christ is proposed as an argument for… Read the whole commentary →

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