having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Peter 2:12 in context
1 Peter 2:9–15
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But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
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In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
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Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
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having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation.
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Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme,
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or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.
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For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.
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