1 Peter 3:21-22

Suffering for Righteousness' Sake

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, ²² who has gone into heaven and _x is at the right hand of God, _y with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.

1. 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.
   
2. Cross References
   Romans 10:10
   For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
   
3. 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.
   
4. Cross References
   Acts 2:33 - 34
   Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.
   Romans 8:34
   Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died - more than that, who was raised - who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
   Ephesians 1:20
   That he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places.
   Colossians 3:1
   If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
   Hebrews 1:3
   He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
   
5. Cross References
   Romans 8:38
   For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers.
   1 Corinthians 15:24
   Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.
   Ephesians 1:21
   Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.