1 Peter 3:20-22
1599 Geneva Bible
20 Which were in time passed disobedient, when [a]once the long suffering of God abode in the days of (A)Noah, while the Ark was preparing, wherein few, that is, eight [b]souls were saved in the water.
21 [c]Whereof the baptism that now is, answering that figure, (which is not a putting away of the filth of the flesh, but a confident demanding with a good conscience maketh to [d]God) saveth us also [e]by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
22 Which is at the right hand of God, gone into heaven, to whom the Angels, and Powers, and might are subject.
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- 1 Peter 3:20 This word (once) showeth that there was a furthermost day appointed, and if that were once past, there should be no more.
- 1 Peter 3:20 Men.
- 1 Peter 3:21 A proportional applying of the former example to the times which followed the coming of Christ: for that preservation of Noah in the waters was a figure of our Baptism, not as though that material water of Baptism saveth us, as those waters which bare up the Ark saved Noah, but because Christ with his inward virtue, which the outward Baptism shadoweth, preserveth us being washed, so that we may call upon God with a good conscience.
- 1 Peter 3:21 The conscience being sanctified may freely call upon God.
- 1 Peter 3:21 That selfsame virtue, whereby Christ rose again, and now being carried into heaven, hath received all power, doth at this day defend and preserve us.
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