For who is going to harm you if you are devoted to what is good?

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

Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you.

And he must turn away from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

or to governors as those he commissions to punish wrongdoers and praise those who do good.

and maintain good conduct among the non-Christians, so that though they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.

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

For the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.

Slaves, be subject to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are perverse.

Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of the varied grace of God.

So then let those who suffer according to the will of God entrust their souls to a faithful Creator as they do good.

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

And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you – not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience to God – through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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.

if you have experienced the Lord’s kindness.

but the word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.

They were shown that they were serving not themselves but you, in regard to the things now announced to you through those who proclaimed the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven – things angels long to catch a glimpse of.

Now it was for this very purpose that the gospel was preached to those who are now dead, so that though they were judged in the flesh by human standards they may live spiritually by God’s standards.

For it is time for judgment to begin, starting with the house of God. And if it starts with us, what will be the fate of those who are disobedient to the gospel of God?

So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.