1 Peter 3:17 DBY

¹⁵  but sanctify [the] Lord the Christ in your hearts, and [be] always prepared to [give] an answer [to] every one that asks you to give an account of the hope that [is] in you, but with meekness and fear;

¹⁶  having a good conscience, that [as to that] in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may be ashamed who calumniate your good conversation in Christ.

¹⁷  For [it is] better, if the will of God should will it, to suffer [as] well-doers than [as] evildoers;

¹⁸  for Christ indeed has once suffered for sins, [the] just for [the] unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in flesh, but made alive in [the] Spirit,

¹⁹  in which also going he preached to the spirits [which are] in prison,