1 Peter 2:12

A Call To Good Works

¹¹ Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul, ¹² having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection. ¹³ Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest,

Among the Nations

Be Careful

Day of Judgment

Glorify God

Glory to God

Good Deeds

Good Works

Praise God

Bring Judgment

When He Comes

O God

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Matthew 5:16

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who is in the heavens.

1 Peter 3:16

having a good conscience, that in that in which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who are traducing your good behaviour in Christ;

Psalm 50:23

He who is sacrificing praise honoureth Me, As to him who maketh a way, I cause him to look on the salvation of God!

Luke 19:44

and lay thee low, and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou didst not know the time of thy inspection.'

2 Corinthians 8:21

providing right things, not only before the Lord, but also before men;

1 Peter 4:11

if any one doth speak -- 'as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister -- 'as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power -- to the ages of the ages. Amen.

Genesis 13:7-8

and there is a strife between those feeding Abram's cattle and those feeding Lot's cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite are then dwelling in the land.

Psalm 37:14

A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way.

Isaiah 10:3

And what do ye at a day of inspection? And at desolation? -- from afar it cometh. Near whom do ye flee for help? And where do ye leave your honour?

Matthew 5:11

Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake --

Matthew 9:8

and the multitudes having seen, wondered, and glorified God, who did give such power to men.

Matthew 10:25

sufficient to the disciple that he may be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord; if the master of the house they did call Beelzeboul, how much more those of his household?

Luke 1:68

Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, Because He did look upon, And wrought redemption for His people,

Luke 6:22

Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake --

Acts 15:14

Simeon did declare how at first God did look after to take out of the nations a people for His name,

Acts 24:5-6

for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world -- a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes --

Acts 24:13

nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me.

Acts 25:7

and he having come, there stood round about the Jews who have come down from Jerusalem -- many and weighty charges they are bringing against Paul, which they were not able to prove,

Romans 12:17

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men.

Romans 13:13

as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;

Romans 15:9

and the nations for kindness to glorify God, according as it hath been written, 'Because of this I will confess to Thee among nations, and to Thy name I will sing praise,'

1 Corinthians 14:25

and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon his face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

2 Corinthians 13:7

and I pray before God that ye do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is right, and we may be as disapproved;

Ephesians 2:3

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,

Ephesians 4:22

ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

Philippians 1:27

Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,

Philippians 2:15-16

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

Philippians 4:8

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as are grave, as many as are righteous, as many as are pure, as many as are lovely, as many as are of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

1 Thessalonians 4:12

that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

1 Timothy 2:2

for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,

1 Timothy 4:12

let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

Titus 2:7-8

concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,

Hebrews 13:5

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, 'No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us, for we trust that we have a good conscience, in all things willing to behave well,

James 3:13

Who is wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

1 Peter 3:1-2

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

1 Peter 4:14-16

if ye be reproached in the name of Christ -- happy are ye, because the Spirit of glory and of God upon you doth rest; in regard, indeed, to them, he is evil-spoken of, and in regard to you, he is glorified;

2 Peter 3:11

All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts?