1 Peter 3:13 - The Message

^13-18 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Now who is there to hurt you if you are zealous followers of that which is good?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ And who is he that will harm you, if ye be zealous of that which is good?

Common English Bible

¹³ Who will harm you if you are zealous for good?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ And who is it who can harm you, if you are zealous in what is good?

1 Peter 3:13 Referencias Cruzadas

Proverbs 16:7

When God approves of your life, even your enemies will end up shaking your hand.

3 John 1:11

Friend, don’t go along with evil. Model the good. The person who does good does God’s work. The person who does evil falsifies God, doesn’t know the first thing about God.

1 Corinthians 14:1

Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it—because it does. Give yourselves to the gifts God gives you. Most of all, try to proclaim his truth. If you praise him in the private language of tongues, God understands you but no one else does, for you are sharing intimacies just between you and him. But when you proclaim his truth in everyday speech, you’re letting others in on the truth so that they can grow and be strong and experience his presence with you.

Proverbs 15:9

A life frittered away disgusts God; he loves those who run straight for the finish line.

Ephesians 5:1

Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.

Proverbs 12:21

No evil can overwhelm a good person, but the wicked have their hands full of it.