20 who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built.

In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water. 21 And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also — not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of* a clear conscience toward God — through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.