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

¹³ Moreover, who is it that will harm you if ye follow that which is good? ¹⁴ Notwithstanding, happy are ye if ye suffer for righteousness' sake. Yea, and fear not though they seem terrible unto you, neither be troubled: ¹⁵ but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, and that with meekness and fear: ¹⁶ having a good conscience, that when they backbite you as evil doers, they may be ashamed, forasmuch as they have falsely accused your good conversation in Christ. ¹⁷ It is better - if the will of God be so - that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

¹⁸ Forasmuch as Christ hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, for to bring us to God, and was killed, as pertaining to the flesh: but was quickened in the spirit.

¹⁹ In which spirit, he also went and preached unto the spirits that were in prison, ²⁰ which were in time past disobedient, when the long suffering of God abode exceeding patiently in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few - that is to say eight souls - were saved by water, ²¹ which signifieth baptism that now saveth us, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but in that a good conscience consenteth to God, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, ²² which is our righthand of God, and is gone into heaven: angels, power, and might subdued unto him.