1 Peter 2:12

A Call To Good Works

¹¹ Beloved, as sojourners and exiles I appeal to you to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war upon the soul. ¹² Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds. ¹³ Submit for the Lord's sake to any human authority; submit to the emperor 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

O God

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Matthew 5:16

So your light is to shine before men, that they may see the good you do and glorify your Father in heaven.

1 Peter 3:16

see that you have a clean conscience, so that, for all their slander of you, these libellers of your good Christian behaviour may be ashamed.

Luke 19:44

and raze you and your children within you to the ground, leaving not one stone upon another within you ??and all because you would not understand when God was visiting you."

2 Corinthians 8:21

I aim at being above reproach not only from God but also from men.

1 Peter 4:11

If anyone preaches, he must preach as one who utters the words of God; if anyone renders some service, it must be as one who is supplied by God with power, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. The glory and the dominion are his for ever and ever: Amen.

Matthew 5:11

Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake;

Matthew 9:8

The crowds who saw it were awed and glorified God for giving such power to men.

Matthew 10:25

enough for the scholar to fare like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If men have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they miscall his servants!

Luke 1:68

"Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, for he has cared for his people and wrought them redemption;

Luke 6:22

Blessed are you when men will hate you, when they will excommunicate you and denounce you and defame you as wicked on account of the Son of man;

Acts 15:14

Symeon has explained how it was God's original concern to secure a People from among the Gentiles to bear his Name.

Acts 24:5-6

The fact is, we have found this man is a perfect pest; he stirs up sedition among the Jews all over the world and he is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect.

Acts 24:13

they cannot furnish you with any proof of their present charges against me.

Acts 25:7

When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him and brought a number of serious charges against him, none of which they were able to prove.

Romans 12:17

Never pay back evil for evil to anyone; aim to be above reproach in the eyes of all;

Romans 13:13

let us live decorously as in the open light of day ??no revelry or bouts of drinking, no debauchery or sensuality, no quarrelling or jealousy.

Romans 15:9

and also in order that the Gentiles should glorify God for His mercy ??as it is written, Therefore will I offer praise to Thee among the Gentiles, and sing to thy name;

1 Corinthians 14:25

the secrets of his heart are brought to light, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God, declaring, 'God is really among you.'

2 Corinthians 1:12

My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.

2 Corinthians 13:7

and I pray to God that you may not go wrong ??not to prove I am a success, that is not the point, but that you should come right, even if I seemed to be a failure.

Ephesians 2:3

among whom all of us lived, we as well as you, when we obeyed the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of the flesh and its impulses, when we were objects of God's anger by nature, like the rest of men.

Ephesians 4:22

you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

Philippians 1:27

Only, do lead a life that is worthy of the gospel of Christ. Whether I come and see you or only hear of you in absence, let me know you are standing firm in a common spirit, fighting side by side like one man for the faith of the gospel.

Philippians 2:15-16

so as to be blameless and innocent, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverse generation where you shine like stars in a dark world;

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brothers, keep in mind whatever is true, whatever is worthy, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is attractive, whatever is high-toned, all excellence, all merit.

1 Thessalonians 4:12

so that your life may be correct in the eyes of the outside world and self-supporting.

1 Timothy 4:12

Let no one slight you because you are a youth, but set the believers an example of speech, behaviour, love, faith, and purity.

Titus 2:7-8

set them an example of good conduct; be sincere and serious in your teaching,

Hebrews 13:5

Keep your life free from the love of money; be content with what you have, for He has said, Never will I fail you, never will I forsake you.

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for me, for I am sure I have a clean conscience; my desire is in every way to lead an honest life.

James 3:13

Who among you is wise and learned? Let him show by his good conduct, with the modesty of wisdom, what his deeds are.

1 Peter 3:1-2

In the same way, you wives must be submissive to your husbands, so that even those who will not believe the Word may be won over without a word by the behaviour of their wives,

1 Peter 4:14-16

If you are denounced for the sake of Christ, you are blessed; for then the Spirit of glory and power, the Spirit of God himself, is resting on you.

2 Peter 3:11

Now as all things are thus to be dissolved, what holy and pious men ought you to be in your behaviour,