1 Peter 3:13-18

13And who shall injure you if ye have become imitators of that which [is] good?

14But if also ye should suffer for righteousness' sake, blessed [are ye]; but be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled;

15but sanctify [the] Lord the Christ in your hearts, and [be] always prepared to [give] an answer [to] every one that asks you to give an account of the hope that [is] in you, but with meekness and fear;

16having a good conscience, that [as to that] in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may be ashamed who calumniate your good conversation in Christ.

17For [it is] better, if the will of 1God should will it, to suffer [as] well-doers than [as] evildoers;

18for Christ indeed has once suffered for sins, [the] just for [the] unjust, that he might bring us to 2God; being put to death in flesh, but made alive in [the] Spirit,