NET Bible
"For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil."
— 1 Peter 3:17, NET Bible
“For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.”
“For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing. ”
“For it is better, if it is God's will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.”
“For it is better doing well (if such be the will of God) to suffer than doing ill.”
“Because if it is God's purpose for you to undergo pain, it is better to do so for well-doing than for evil-doing.”
“For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.”
But in fact, if you happen to suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. But do not be terrified of them or be shaken.
But set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess.
Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you.
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil.
Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.
In it he went and preached to the spirits in prison,
after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.