I
PETER 3:20,21
20
that aforetime were disobedient, when the long-suffering of God waited in the
days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls,
were saved through water: 21 which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but
the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of
Jesus Christ...
ACTS
2:40,41
40
And with many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation. 41 They then that received his word were baptized: and there were added unto them in that day about three thousand souls.
I
PETER 1:22
22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your
obedience to the truth unto
unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently...