1 Peter 3:16-18 and keep your conscience clear, so that those who bitterly abuse your excellent conduct as Christians may be ashamed of slandering you.

Williams⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁶ and keep your conscience clear, so that those who bitterly abuse your excellent conduct as Christians may be ashamed of slandering you. ¹⁷ For it is better, if the will of God should plan it so, to suffer for doing right than for doing wrong. ¹⁸ For Christ Himself, once for all, died for our sins, the Innocent for the guilty to bring us to God, being put to death in physical form but made alive in the Spirit,