Sinai1 Peter 3:17
American Standard Version
For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.
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1 Peter 3:17 in other translations
For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.
1 Peter 3:17 in context
- 15but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: being ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear:
- 16having a good conscience; that, wherein ye are spoken against, they may be put to shame who revile your good manner of life in Christ.
- 17For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.
- 18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
- 19in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison,