1 Peter 3:17
1 Peter 3:13-18 The Message (MSG)
If with heart and soul you’re doing good, do you think you can be stopped? Even if you suffer for it, you’re still better off. Don’t give the opposition a second thought. Through thick and thin, keep your hearts at attention, in adoration before Christ, your Master. Be ready to speak up and tell anyone who asks why you’re living the way you are, and always with the utmost courtesy. Keep a clear conscience before God so that when people throw mud at you, none of it will stick. They’ll end up realizing that they’re the ones who need a bath. It’s better to suffer for doing good, if that’s what God wants, than to be punished for doing bad. That’s what Christ did definitively: suffered because of others’ sins, the Righteous One for the unrighteous ones. He went through it all—was put to death and then made alive—to bring us to God.
1 Peter 3:17 King James Version (KJV)
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
1 Peter 3:17 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.
1 Peter 3:17 New Century Version (NCV)
It is better to suffer for doing good than for doing wrong if that is what God wants.
1 Peter 3:17 American Standard Version (ASV)
For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.
1 Peter 3:17 New International Version (NIV)
For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
1 Peter 3:17 New King James Version (NKJV)
For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
1 Peter 3:17 Amplified Bible (AMP)
For it is better that you suffer [unjustly] for doing what is right, if that should be God’s will, than [to suffer justly] for doing wrong.
1 Peter 3:17 New Living Translation (NLT)
Remember, it is better to suffer for doing good, if that is what God wants, than to suffer for doing wrong!