Scriptures

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

1 Peter 3
¹⁶ and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.
¹⁷ For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.
¹⁸ For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
¹⁹ in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison,
²⁰ who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.
²¹ Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you-not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience-through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
²² who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.
1 Peter 4
¹ Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
² so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
³ For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries.
⁴ In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, and they malign you;