1 Peter 3:19 DBY

¹⁷  For [it is] better, if the will of God should will it, to suffer [as] well-doers than [as] evildoers;

¹⁸  for Christ indeed has once suffered for sins, [the] just for [the] unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in flesh, but made alive in [the] Spirit,

¹⁹  in which also going he preached to the spirits [which are] in prison,

²⁰  heretofore disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in [the] days of Noah while the ark was preparing, into which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:

²¹  which figure also now saves you, [even] baptism, not a putting away of [the] filth of flesh, but [the] demand as before God of a good conscience, by [the] resurrection of Jesus Christ,