1 Peter 3:16

3:16 Yet do it with courtesy and respect, ¹  keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you. ² 

1 Peter 3:21

3:21 And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you ³  – not the washing off of physical dirt ⁴  but the pledge ⁵  of a good conscience to God – through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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¹ tn Grk “but with courtesy and respect,” continuing the command of v. 15. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

² tn Grk “when you are spoken against.”

³ tn Grk “which also, [as] an antitype, now saves you, [that is] baptism.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

⁴ tn Grk “the removal of the dirt of the flesh,” where flesh refers to the physical make-up of the body with no moral connotations.

⁵ tn Or “response”; “answer.”