21 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, 22 who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.
From BibleGateway.com:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1 Peter
3:21-22&version=NIV1984