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12 (A)Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honourable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, (B)they may see your good deeds and glorify God on (C)the day of visitation.

Submission to Authority

13 (D)Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution,[a] whether it be to the emperor[b] as supreme, 14 or to governors as sent by him (E)to punish those who do evil and (F)to praise those who do good.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:13 Or every institution ordained for people
  2. 1 Peter 2:13 Or king; also verse 17