1 Peter 3:17

3:17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, ¹  than for doing evil.

1 Peter 2:15

2:15 For God wants you ²  to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.

1 Peter 2:20

2:20 For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God. ³ 

1 Peter 3:6

3:6 like Sarah who obeyed ⁴  Abraham, calling him lord. You become her children ⁵  when you do what is good and have no fear in doing so. ⁶ 

¹ tn Grk “if the will of God should will it.” As in 3:14 the Greek construction here implies that suffering for doing good was not what God normally willed, even though it could happen, and in fact may have happened to some of the readers (cf. 4:4, 12-19).

² tn Grk “because thus it is God’s will.”

³ tn Grk “For this [is] favor/grace with God,” used as a metonymy as in vs. 19 of that which pleases him, which he looks on with favor (cf. BDAG 1079 s.v. χάρις 2).

⁴ tn Grk “as Sarah obeyed.”

⁵ tn Grk “whose children you become.”

⁶ tn Grk “doing good and not fearing any intimidation.”