TSK · 1 Peter 3:21

The Refinement of Judah“In that day there will be a fountain opened up for the dynasty of David and the people of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned.

Peter said to them,“Repent, and each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.’

Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, so that through us you may learn“not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.

Paul Defends His Changed Plans For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God– not by human wisdom but by the grace of God– we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.

he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.