Now who is he who will harm you, if you become imitators of that which is good?
We must believe, therefore, that it was this safety through persecution that Peter had in mind here.  There is a quotation from G. A. Studdent-Kennedy regarding one who was asked if prayer would render a man invulnerable to shot and shell, and who replied that "Fellowship with God through prayer would make a man sure that though his body was shattered, his soul would be untouched."[18]