1 Peter 3:16-18

CLV(i) 16 having a good conscience, that, in what they are speaking against you as of evildoers, they may be mortified, who traduce your good behavior in Christ." 17 For it is better to be suffering for doing good, if the will of God may be willing, than for doing evil, 18 seeing that Christ also, for our sakes, once died concerning sins, the just for the sake of the unjust, that He may be leading us to God; being put to death, indeed, in flesh, yet vivified in spirit,