¹²Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation.

¹³Be ye subject therefore to every human creature for God’s sake: whether it be to the king as excelling,

¹⁴Or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good.

¹⁵For so is the will of God, that by doing well you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

¹⁶As free and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.

¹⁷Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

¹⁸Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle but also to the forward.

¹⁹For this is thankworthy: if, for conscience towards God, a man endure sorrows, suffering wrongfully.

²⁰For what glory is it, if, committing sin and being buffeted for it, you endure? But if doing well you suffer patiently: this is thankworthy before God.

²¹For unto this are you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example that you should follow his steps.

²²Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth.

²³Who, when he was reviled, did not revile: when he suffered, he threatened not, but delivered himself to him that judged him unjustly.

²⁴Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed.

²⁵For you were as sheep going astray: but you are now converted to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.

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1 Peter 2:16: Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.

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