16Being conscious that you have done no wrong; so that those who say evil things about your good way of life as Christians may be put to shame.
17Because if it is God's purpose for you to undergo pain, it is better to do so for well-doing than for evil-doing.
18Because Christ once went through pain for sins, the upright one taking the place of sinners, so that through him we might come back to God; being put to death in the flesh, but given life in the Spirit;
19By whom he went to the spirits in prison, preaching to those
20Who, 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:
21And 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;
22Who has gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been put under his rule.
