NET
17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil.
Darby
17 For [it is] better, if the will of God should will it, to suffer [as] well-doers than [as] evildoers;
KJV
17 For [it is] better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.