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1 Peter 3:22 KJV
1 Peter · chapter 3 · verse 22
Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.1 Peter 3:22 · King James Version
1 Peter 3:22 in context
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)
- authoritiesexousiapower of choice, liberty of doing as one pleases, leave or permission, physical and…G1849 →
- subjecthypotassōto arrange under, to subordinate, to subject, put in subjection, to subject one s self…G5293 →
- heavenouranosthe vaulted expanse of the sky with all things visible in it, the universe, the world…G3772 →
- angelsangelosa messenger, envoy, one who is sent, an angel, a messenger from GodG32 →
- powersdynamisstrength power, ability, inherent power, power residing in a thing by virtue of its…G1411 →
- goneporeuōto lead over, carry over, transfer, to pursue the journey on which one has entered, to…G4198 →
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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