Sinai1 Peter 2:12
World English Bible
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.
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1 Peter 2:12 in other translations
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.
1 Peter 2:12 in context
- 10In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
- 11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
- 12having 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.
- 13Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
- 14or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.