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1 Peter 3:21-22
New International Version
1 Peter 3:21-22
New International Version
21 and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you(A) also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience(B) toward God.[a] It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,(C) 22 who has gone into heaven(D) and is at God’s right hand(E)—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.(F)
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- 1 Peter 3:21 Or but an appeal to God for a clear conscience
1 Peter 3:21-22
New English Translation
1 Peter 3:21-22
New English Translation
21 And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you[a]—not the washing off of physical dirt[b] but the pledge[c] of a good conscience to God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22 who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God[d] with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.[e]
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- 1 Peter 3:21 tn Grk “which also, [as] an antitype, now saves you, [that is] baptism.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
- 1 Peter 3:21 tn Grk “the removal of the dirt of the flesh,” where flesh refers to the physical make-up of the body with no moral connotations.
- 1 Peter 3:21 tn Or “response”; “answer.”
- 1 Peter 3:22 tn Grk “who is at the right hand…having gone into heaven.”
- 1 Peter 3:22 tn Grk “angels…having been subjected to him.”
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