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1 Peter 3:21 KJV
1 Peter · chapter 3 · verse 21
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:1 Peter 3:21 · King James Version
1 Peter 3:21 in context
19By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20Which 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.
21The 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:
22Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
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Key words (Strong's)
- consciencesyneidēsisthe consciousness of anything, the soul as distinguishing between what is morally good…G4893 →
- whereuntohoswho, which, what, thatG3739 →
- baptismbaptismaimmersion, submersion, of calamities and afflictions with which one is quite overwhelmed…G908 →
- figureantityposa thing formed after some pattern, a thing resembling another, its counterpart, something…G499 →
- fleshsarxflesh of both man and beasts, the body, the body of a man, used of natural or physical…G4561 →
- savesōzōto save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction, one , to save a…G4982 →
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Noah's salvation in the ark upon the water prefigured the salvation of all good Christians in the church by baptism; that temporal salvation by the ark was a type, the antitype whereunto is the eternal salvation of believers by baptism, to prevent mistakes about which the apostle, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 21-22