18 因为基督也曾一次为罪受苦,以无罪之身代替不义之人,为要领你们到上帝面前。祂的肉体虽被处死,但祂借着圣灵复活了。 19 祂还借着圣灵向那些监狱中的灵魂传道, 20 他们就是从前在挪亚造方舟、上帝耐心等候人们悔改的时代中那些不肯信的人。当时进入方舟,从洪水中得救的人很少,只有八个人。 21 这水代表的洗礼现在借着耶稣基督的复活也拯救了你们。这洗礼要表明的不是除掉肉体的污秽,而是求在上帝面前有无愧的良心。 22 基督已经升到天上,坐在上帝的右边,众天使、掌权的、有能力的都服从了祂。

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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.

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:

22 Who 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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