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

13 And who going to injure you, if ye be imitators of good? 14 But if ye also suffer for justice, happy are ye: be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled; 15 And consecrate the Lord God in your hearts: and being ready always for a justification to every one asking you the word of the hope in you with meekness and fear: 16 Having a good consciousness; that, in what they speak evil against you, as doing evil, they threatening your good turning round in Christ should be ashamed. 17 Fur better, doing good, if the will of God will, to suffer, than doing evil.

18 For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just one for the unjust, that he might bring us near to God, truly put to death in the flesh, and made alive by the Spirit:

19 In which also having gone, he proclaimed to the spirits in prison; 20 They having been once unbelieving, when the longsuffering of God waited in Noah's days, the ark being prepared, in which few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. 21 By which also the figure, immersion, now saves us (not by laying aside of the filth of the flesh, but the question of a good. consciousness toward God,) by the rising up of Jesus Christ: 22 Who is on the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers subjected to him.