¹⁶ Now why do you delay? ^(A)Get up and be baptized, and ^(B)wash away your sins by ^(C)calling on His name.’

^11 (A)Such were some of you; but you were ^(B)washed, but you were ^(C)sanctified, but you were ^(D)justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and ^[a]in the Spirit of our God.

^26 (A)so that He might sanctify her, having ^(B)cleansed her by the ^(C)washing of water with ^(D)the word,

^5 (A)He saved us, ^(B)not on the basis of deeds which we did in righteousness, but ^(C)in accordance with His mercy, by the ^(D)washing of regeneration and ^(E)renewing by the Holy Spirit,

^21 (A)Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you—^(B)not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God ^[a]for a ^(C)good conscience—through ^(D)the resurrection of Jesus Christ,