1 Peter 3:17 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁷ Wherein they think it strange, that you run not with them into the same confusion of riotousness, speaking evil of you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ For [it is] better to suffer [unjustly] for doing right, if that should be God's will, than to suffer [justly] for doing wrong.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ It is better to suffer for doing good (if this could possibly be God’s will) than for doing evil.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ For it is better to suffer for doing good, if it is the will of God, than for doing evil.

1 Peter 3:17 Cross References

Matthew 26:39

7 As he yet spoke, behold Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests and the ancients of the people.

Matthew 26:42

0 And Jesus said to him: Friend, whereto art thou come? Then they came up, and laid hands on Jesus, and held him.

Acts 18:21

AND it came to pass, while Apollo was at Corinth, that Paul having passed through the upper coasts, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples.

Acts 21:14

2 What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.

1 Peter 1:6

5 But according to him that hath called you, who is holy, be you also in all manner of conversation holy:

1 Peter 2:15

4 Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed.

1 Peter 2:20

But the hidden man of the heart in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit, which is rich in the sight of God.

1 Peter 3:14

Christ therefore having suffered in the flesh, be you also armed with the same thought: for he that hath suffered in the flesh, hath ceased from sins:

1 Peter 4:15

In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another, for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.

1 Peter 4:19

Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that the same affliction befalls your brethren who are in the world.