1 Peter 2:12
Live upright lives among the heathen, so that even if they charge you with being evil-doers, they may from observing the uprightness of your conduct come to praise God on the Day of Judgment.
Matthew 5:16
Your light must burn in that way among men so that they will see the good you do, and praise your Father in heaven.
1 Peter 3:16
and keep your conscience clear, so that those who abuse your upright Christian conduct may be made ashamed of their slanders.
Luke 19:44
and they will throw you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave one stone upon another within you because you did not know when God visited you!"
2 Corinthians 8:21
I intend to do what is right not only in the Lord's sight but in the eyes of men.
1 Peter 4:11
If one preaches, let him do it like one who utters the words of God; if one does some service, let him do it as with strength which God supplies, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Matthew 5:11
"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and falsely say everything bad of you, on my account.
Matthew 9:8
And when the crowd saw it, they were filled with awe, and praised God for giving such power to men.
Matthew 10:25
A pupil should be satisfied to come to be like his teacher, or a slave, to come to be like his master. If men have called the head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they give to the members of his household!
Luke 1:68
"Blessings on the Lord, the God of Israel, Because he has turned his attention to his people, and brought about their deliverance,
Luke 6:22
"Blessed are you when people hate you and exclude you and denounce you and spurn the name you bear as evil, on account of the Son of Man.
Acts 15:14
Symeon has told how God first showed an interest in taking from among the heathen a people to bear his name.
Acts 24:5-6
For we have found this man a pest and a disturber of the peace among Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect,
Acts 24:13
and they cannot sustain the charges they have just made against me.
Acts 25:7
When he came, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him, and made a number of serious charges against him, which they could not substantiate.
Romans 12:17
Do not pay anyone back with evil for evil. See that you are above reproach in the eyes of everyone.
Romans 13:13
Let us live honorably, as in the light of day, not in carousing and drunkenness, or in immorality and indecency, or in quarreling and jealousy.
Romans 15:9
and causing the heathen to praise God for his mercy; as the Scripture says, "I will give thanks to you for this among the heathen, And sing in honor of your name."
1 Corinthians 14:25
the secrets of his heart are exposed, and he will fall down on his face and worship God, and declare that God is really among you.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For my boast is what my conscience tells me, that my relations to the world and still more to you have been marked by pure motives and godly sincerity, not by worldly shrewdness but by the favor of God.
2 Corinthians 13:7
But I pray to God that you may not do wrong??ot to prove me equal to the test, but that you should do right even if I fail to stand it.
Ephesians 2:3
We all lived among them once, indulging our physical cravings and obeying the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were doomed to God's wrath like other men.
Ephesians 4:22
You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions.
Philippians 1:27
Whatever happens, show yourselves citizens worthy of the good news of the Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am kept away and only hear news of you, I may know that you are standing firm with one spirit, one purpose, fighting side by side for faith in the good news.
Philippians 2:15-16
so that you will be blameless and honest, faultless children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted age, in which you appear like stars in a dark world,
Philippians 4:8
Now, brothers, let your minds dwell on what is true, what is worthy, what is right, what is pure, what is amiable, what is kindly??n everything that is excellent or praiseworthy.
1 Thessalonians 4:12
so that you may have the respect of the outsiders, and not be dependent upon anybody.
1 Timothy 2:2
for emperors and all who are in authority, so that we may live tranquil, quiet lives, with perfect piety and probity.
1 Timothy 4:12
Let no one look down on you because you are young, but set those who believe an example in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.
Titus 2:7-8
In every way set them an example of good conduct yourself. Teach with sincerity and seriousness,
Hebrews 13:5
You must not be avaricious; you must be content with what you have, for God himself has said, "I will never let go of you or desert you!"
Hebrews 13:18
Pray for me, for I am sure I have a clear conscience, and I mean in every way to live an upright life.
James 3:13
What wise, intelligent man is there among you? Let him show by his good life that what he does is done in the humility of wisdom.
1 Peter 3:1-2
You married women, in the same way, must be submissive to your husbands, so that any who refuse to believe the message may be won over without argument through the behavior of their wives
1 Peter 4:14-16
If you are being abused for the sake of Christ, you are blessed, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you.
2 Peter 3:11
If all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what holy and pious lives you ought to lead,