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TO BRING YOU TO GOD

For Christ died once for all, the righteous for the

unrighteous, to bring you to God.

He was put to death in the body but made alive

by the Spirit, through Whom also He went and preached

to the spirits in prison who disobeyed long ago when

God waited patiently in the days of Noah

while the ark was being built. In it only a few

people, eight in all, were saved through water,

and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you

also- not the removal of dirt from the body but the

pledge of a good conscience toward God.

It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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