1 Peter 3:16-20

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,

19in which also going he preached to the spirits [which are] in prison,

20heretofore disobedient, when the longsuffering of 3God waited in [the] days of Noah while the ark was preparing, into which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water: