1 Peter 2

12 Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may *2:12 Or as a result ofbecause of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God on the day of *2:12 I.e., Christ’s coming again in judgmentvisitation.

Honor Authority

13 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, 14 or to governors as sent *2:14 Lit throughby him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right.