1 Peter 4:16-17 But if a person should have to suffer because he is a Christian, he should not be ashamed of it, but instead, he should bring honor to God by wearing the name of Christ.

AUV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁶ But if a person should have to suffer because he is a Christian, he should not be ashamed [of it], but instead, he should bring honor to God by [wearing] the name [of Christ]. ¹⁷ For the time has [now] come for the house of God [the church, See I Tim. 3:15] to begin receiving judgment [i.e., by undergoing persecution], and if it starts with us [Christians], what will be the [ultimate] end of people who do not obey the Gospel of God?