1 Peter 3:13-22 - Suffer For Doing What Is Good

¹³ And who is he that can harm you, if ye are followers of that which is good? ¹⁴ But also if ye suffer anything for righteousness' sake, blessed are ye; therefore, be not afraid of their terror neither be troubled, ¹⁵ but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to respond to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and reverence, ¹⁶ having a good conscience, so in that which they murmur against you as of evildoers, those that blaspheme your good conversation in the Christ may be confused. ¹⁷ For it is better (if the will of God so desires) that ye suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

¹⁸ For the Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in spirit,

¹⁹ in which he also went and preached unto the imprisoned spirits, ²⁰ which in the time past were disobedient, when once the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being made ready, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. ²¹ Unto the figure of which the baptism that does now correspond saves us (not taking away the uncleanness of the flesh, but giving testimony of a good conscience before God) by the resurrection of Jesus, the Christ, ²² who is at the right hand of God, having ascended into heaven, unto whom the angels and the authorities and powers are subject.