King James Version (KJV)
1 Peter 2:12
“Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by [your] good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.”
Verse in context — 1 Peter 2
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Which in time past [were] not a people, but [are] now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
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Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by [your] good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
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Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
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Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.