1 Peter 2

12 having your behavior right among the nations, so that whenever they speak against you as evildoers, seeing [your] good works, they may glorify God in [the] day of inspection. 13 Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the LORD, whether to a king, as the highest, 14 whether to governors, as to those sent through him, for punishment, indeed, of evildoers, and a praise of those doing good;