17For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
— 1 Peter 3:17-18

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