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1 Peter 2:12

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12sHaving your tconversation honest among the Gentiles: that, ||uwhereas they speak against you as wevildoers, they may xby your good works, which they shall ybehold, zglorify God in the day of avisitation.

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Footnotes

  1. sSo Phil. 2:15. Tit. 2:8. ver. 15. See Rom. 12:17.
  2. tSee Gal. 1:13. Comp. James 3:13.
  3. ||Or, wherein. Heb. 2:18. ch. 3:19. & 4:4 in the Gk.
  4. uch. 3:16. So Acts 28:22. ch. 4:14.
  5. wJohn 18:30 (Gk.). ver. 14. ch. 3:16. & 4:15.
  6. ych. 3:2. So 2 Pet. 1:16.
  7. zSee 2 Cor. 9:13.
  8. aLuke 19:44. See Wisd. 2:20.

Cross references

  1. xMatt. 5:16.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits.

NLTNew Living Translation

Be careful to live properly among your unbelieving neighbors. Then even if they accuse you of doing wrong, they will see your honorable behavior, and they will give honor to God when he judges the world.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

maintaining your good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in the things in which they slander you as evildoers, by seeing your good deeds they may glorify God on the day of visitation.