1 Peter 3:20-21

Christian Standard Bible

²⁰ who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah^(A) while the ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people^[a](B)—were saved through water. ²¹ Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you (not as the removal of dirt from the body,^(C) but the pledge^[b] of a good conscience toward God) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,^(D)