17. For it is better (if the will of God so desires) that ye suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
18. For the Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in spirit,
19. in which he also went and preached unto the imprisoned spirits,
20. which in the time past were disobedient, when once the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being made ready, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
21. Unto the figure of which the baptism that does now correspond saves us (not taking away the uncleanness of the flesh, but giving testimony of a good conscience before God) by the resurrection of Jesus, the Christ,
22. who is at the right hand of God, having ascended into heaven, unto whom the angels and the authorities and powers are subject.