1 Peter 2:12-14

New American Standard Bible 1995

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

Honor Authority

^13 (E)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 ^[c]by him ^(F)for the punishment of evildoers and the ^(G)praise of those who do right.