1 Peter 2:12

A Call To Good Works

¹¹ Dearly beloved, I exhort you as temporary residents and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, ¹² having your conduct honest among the nations, in that which they speak against you as evildoers, they may glorify God in a day of His visitation, seeing your good works. ¹³ Then be in obedience to every ordinance of men, because of the Lord, whether to a king as supreme,

Among the Nations

Be Careful

Day of Judgment

Glorify God

Glory to God

Good Deeds

Good Works

Praise God

Bring Judgment

When He Comes

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Matthew 5:16

Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in Heaven.

1 Peter 3:16

having a good conscience, that while they speak against you as evildoers they may be shamed, those falsely accusing your good behavior in Christ.

Psalm 50:23

Whoever offers praise glorifies Me; and he who sets a way, I will show him the salvation of God.

Luke 19:44

And they will tear you down, and your children within you, and will not leave a stone on a stone because you did not know the time of your visitation.

2 Corinthians 8:21

providing for honest things, not only before the Lord, but also before men.

1 Peter 4:11

If anyone speaks, let it be as the words of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as of the ability which God gives, so that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory, and the might forever and ever. Amen.

Genesis 13:7-8

And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived then in the land.

Psalm 37:14

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who walk uprightly.

Isaiah 10:3

And what will you do in the day of judgment and in destruction, of ruin when it comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory?

Matthew 5:11

Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for My sake.

Matthew 9:8

But when the crowds saw, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

Matthew 10:25

It is enough for the disciple that he is like his master, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more those of his household?

Luke 1:68

Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, for He has visited and redeemed His people

Luke 6:22

Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall cut you off, and when they shall reproach you and shall cast out your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.

Acts 15:14

Even as Simon has declared how God at the first visited the nations to take out of them a people for His name.

Acts 24:5-6

For we have found this man pestilent, and moving rebellion among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,

Acts 24:13

Nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.

Acts 25:7

And he having come, the Jews who came down from Jerusalem stood around and brought many charges against Paul, which they could not prove.

Romans 12:17

Repay no one evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

Romans 13:13

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in carousings and drinking; not in co-habitation and lustful acts; not in strife and envy.

Romans 15:9

and that the nations might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written, "For this cause I will confess to You in the nations, and I will praise Your name."

1 Corinthians 14:25

And so the secrets of his heart become revealed. And so, falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity; not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God; we have had our conduct in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

2 Corinthians 13:7

But I pray to God for you not to do evil, none. And not that we may appear approved, but that you should do the good things, though we are deemed to be reprobates.

Ephesians 2:3

among whom we also had our way of life in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

Ephesians 4:22

For you ought to put off the old man (according to your way of living before) who is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,

Philippians 1:27

Only let your conduct be as becomes the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,

Philippians 2:15-16

so that you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. Among these you shine as lights in the world,

Philippians 4:8

Finally, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are right, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think on these things.

1 Thessalonians 4:12

so that you may walk becomingly toward those outside, and that you may lack nothing.

1 Timothy 2:2

for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.

1 Timothy 4:12

Let no one despise your youth, but be an example of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Titus 2:7-8

In all things having shown yourself a pattern of good works: in the doctrine, purity, sensibleness, without corruption,

Hebrews 13:5

Let your way of life be without the love of money, and be content with such things as you have, for He has said, "Not at all will I leave you, not at all will I forsake you, never!"

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us; for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

James 3:13

Who is wise and knowing among you? Let him show his works by his good conduct with meekness of wisdom.

1 Peter 3:1-2

Likewise, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, so that if any do not obey the Word, they may also be won without the Word by the conduct of the wives,

1 Peter 4:14-16

If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of God and of glory rests on you. Truly according to them, He is blasphemed, but according to you He is glorified.

2 Peter 3:11

Then, all these things being about to be dissolved, what sort ought you to be in holy behavior and godliness,