when slandered, we speak kindly. We have become like the rubbish of the world, the dregs of all things, to this very day.
You have made us filth and rubbish among the peoples.
Up to this point they listened to him, but then they shouted, “Away with such a fellow from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live.”
in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors and yet are true,
And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you—not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,