15. But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:
16. having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Messiah.
17. For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.
18. Because Messiah also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
19. in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,
20. who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.