14. But and if ye should suffer for righteousness' sake, blessed are ye: and fear not their fear, neither be troubled;
15. but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: being ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear:
16. having a good conscience; that, wherein ye are spoken against, they may be put to shame who revile your good manner of life in Christ.
17. For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.
18. Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but quickened in the spirit;
19. in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison,
20. which aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water: