1 Peter 3:20-21

Suffering for Righteousness' Sake

²⁰ because ₁ they formerly did not obey, _r when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, _s while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, _t eight persons, were brought safely through water. ²¹ Baptism, which corresponds to this, _u now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but _v as an appeal to God for a good conscience, _w through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

1. Cross References
   Genesis 6:3
   Then the Lord said, "My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.
   Genesis 6:5
   The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
   Genesis 6:13 - 14
   And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
   
2. Cross References
   Hebrews 11:7
   By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
   
3. Cross References
   Genesis 7:1
   Then the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
   Genesis 7:7
   And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
   Genesis 7:23
   He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.
   Genesis 8:18
   So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.
   2 Peter 2:5
   If he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly.
   
4. Cross References
   Mark 16:16
   Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
   Acts 16:33
   And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.
   Romans 6:3 - 6
   Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
   Titus 3:5
   He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.
   
5. Cross References
   Romans 10:10
   For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
   
6. Cross References
   1 Peter 1:3
   Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.