1 Peter 3:17

1 Peter 3:17

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.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Better (kreitton). Comparative of kratuv as in II Peter 2:21; Hebrews 1:4. Patient endurance not only silences calumny (verse I Peter 3:16), is Christlike (verse I Peter 3:18), but it has a value of its own (verse I Peter 3:17).

If the will of God should so will (ei qeloi to qelhma tou qeou). Condition of the fourth class again (ei—qeloi) with ei and the optative. For a like pleonasm see John 7:17.

For well-doing than for evil-doing (agaqopoiountav h kakopoiountav). Accusative plural agreeing with umav understood (accusative of general reference with the infinitive pasxein (to suffer) of the participles from agaqopoiew (see I Peter 2:15) and kakopoiew (Mark 3:4, and see I Peter 2:14 for kakopoiov).

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