^{20 Ref} that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:

^{21 Ref} which also after a true likeness doth now save you, `even' baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

^{22 Ref} who is one the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

^{20 Ref} Who, in the days of Noah, went against God's orders; but God in his mercy kept back the punishment, while Noah got ready the ark, in which a small number, that is to say eight persons, got salvation through water:

^{21 Ref} And baptism, of which this is an image, now gives you salvation, not by washing clean the flesh, but by making you free from the sense of sin before God, through the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead;

^{22 Ref} Who has gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been put under his rule.