1 Peter 3:14-18

JuliaSmith(i) 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: