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12 (A)by keeping your conduct excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing which they (B)slander you as evildoers, they may [a]because of your good works, as they observe them, (C)glorify God (D)in the day of [b]visitation.

Be Subject to Authority

13 (E)Be subject for the sake of the Lord to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, 14 or to governors as sent [c]by him (F)for the punishment of evildoers and the (G)praise of those who do good.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:12 Or as a result of
  2. 1 Peter 2:12 Christ’s coming again in judgment
  3. 1 Peter 2:14 Lit through