the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep 1 his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.
1 tn Grk “stop.”
2 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.
3 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.
4 tn Or “response”; “answer.”