14. But even if you suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “And do not fear their threats, neither be troubled.”
15. But set apart יהוה Elohim in your hearts, and always be ready to give an answer to everyone asking you a reason concerning the expectation that is in you, with meekness and fear,
16. having a good conscience, so that when they speak against you as doers of evil, those who falsely accuse your good behaviour in Messiah, shall be ashamed.
17. For it is better, if it is the desire of Elohim, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
18. Because even Messiah once suffered for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to Elohim, having been put to death indeed in flesh but made alive in the Spirit,
19. in which also He went and proclaimed unto the spirits in prison,
20. who were disobedient at one time when the patience of Elohim waited in the days of Noaḥ, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight beings, were saved through water,
21. which figure now also saves us: immersion – not a putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward Elohim – through the resurrection of יהושע Messiah,
22. who, having gone into heaven, is at the right hand of Elohim, messengers and authorities and powers having been subjected to Him.