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Better (kreitton). Comparative of kratus as in 2Pe 2:21; Heb 1:4. Patient endurance not only silences calumny (1Pe 3:16), is Christlike (1Pe 3:18), but it has a value of its own (1Pe 3:17).
If the will of God should so will (ei theloi to thelēma tou theou). Condition of the fourth class again (ei - theloi) with ei and the optative. For a like pleonasm see Joh 7:17.
For well-doing than for evil-doing (agathopoiountas ē kakopoiountas). Accusative plural agreeing with humās understood (accusative of general reference with the infinitive paschein (to suffer) of the participles from agathopoieō (see 1Pe 2:15) and kakopoieō (Mar 3:4, and see 1Pe 2:14 for kakopoios).