Sinai1 Peter 2:12
American Standard Version
having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
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1 Peter 2:12 in other translations
having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
1 Peter 2:12 in context
- 10who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
- 11Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
- 12having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
- 13Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
- 14or unto governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to them that do well.