Study it in the app“which also now saves you, as a corresponding figure: immersion, not the removal of dirt from the flesh but the request of a good conscience to God, through the resurrection of Jesus the Messiah,”
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save
To rescue from sin and ruin.
Where else “sōizei” appearscorresponding figure
What answers to an earlier picture, like the flood waters.
Where else “antitypon” appearsimmersion
Putting someone into water as a sign; what is called baptism.
Where else “baptisma” appearsremoval
Washing grime off the body.
Where else “apothesis” appearsdirt, filth
Dirt, filth.
Where else “rhypou” appearsflesh
The soft part of the body, of people or animals; also the body itself.
Where else “sarkos” appearspledge, appeal
A question or request; also a pledge or answer given to a question.
Where else “eperōtēma” appearsgood
Being as it should be and doing others good; in the full sense, God alone.
Where else “agathēs” appearsconscience
Conscience: the inner sense that judges whether what one does is right or wrong.
Where else “syneidēseōs” appearsGod
The Creator and Lord of all, the one God of Israel.
Where else “theon” appearsresurrection
Coming back to life after death.
Where else “anastaseōs” appearsJesus
Jesus, the Greek form of the Hebrew Yehoshua (Joshua), which means "YHWH saves". It is the name the angel told Joseph to give him (Matthew 1:21).
Where else “Iēsou” appearsMessiah
Messiah: literally "anointed", the king or envoy God consecrates with oil. It is a title, not a surname; in Hebrew, mashiach.
Where else “Christou” appears“Corresponding figure”: the same word as “copy” in Hebrews 9:24; there it is the copy of a model, here what corresponds to a figure. It can be understood that the water of the flood (3:20) prefigures immersion. “Request”: the word means “question” or “demand.”
20who had once disobeyed, when the patience of God was waiting in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.
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22who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, with angels and authorities and powers subjected to him.
