¹⁹ In that state^[a] He also went and made a proclamation to the spirits^(A) in prison^{[b] 20} who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah^(B) while an ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people^[c](C)—were saved through water. ²¹ Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you (not the removal of the filth of the flesh,^(D) but the pledge^[d] of a good conscience toward God) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.^{(E) 22} Now that He has gone into heaven,^(F) He is at God’s right hand^(G) with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.^(H)

⁴ For if God didn’t spare^(A) the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus^[a](B) and delivered them to be kept in chains^[b] of darkness until judgment;^{(C) 5} and if He didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah,^(D) a preacher of righteousness, and seven others,^[c](E) when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

⁶ and He has kept, with eternal chains in darkness for the judgment of the great day, the angels^(A) who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling.