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14 aBut even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. b“And do not be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.”  
15 But1 sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always abe ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the bhope that is in you, with meekness and fear;  
16 ahaving a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.  
17 For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

Christ’s Suffering and Ours

18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring1 us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,  
19 by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,
20 who formerly were disobedient,1 when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.  
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1 Peter 3:16

Having a good conscience (suneidhsin exontev agaqhn). Present active participle of exw. See I Peter 2:18 for suneidhsin and I Peter 3:21 for suneidhsiv agaqh again ("a quasi-personification," Hart).

That they may be put to shame (ina kataisxunqwsin). Purpose clause with ina and the first aorist passive subjunctive of kataisxunw, old verb, to put to shame (Luke 13:17; I Peter 2:6).

Wherein ye are spoken against (en w katalaleisqe). Present passive indicative of katalalew, for which see I Peter 2:12 with en w also. Peter may be recalling (Hart) his own experience at Pentecost when the Jews first scoffed and others were cut to the heart (Acts 2:13, Acts 2:37).

Who revile (oi ephreazontev). Articular present active participle of ephreazw, old verb (from ephreia, spiteful abuse), to insult, in N.T. only here and Luke 6:28.

In Christ (en Xristw). Paul's common mystical phrase that Peter has three times (here, I Peter 5:10, I Peter 5:14), not in John, though the idea is constantly in John. Peter here gives a new turn (cf. I Peter 2:12) to anastrofh (manner of life). "Constantly the apostle repeats his phrases with new significance and in a new light" (Bigg).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Peter 3:16:

Luke 6:28
Acts 23:1
James 4:11
1 Peter 2:19
1 Peter 3:17

 

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