1 Peter 2:12

A Call To Good Works

¹¹ Beloved, I exhort you, as sojourners and strangers, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; ¹² having your manner of life among the gentiles honorable; that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. ¹³ Submit yourselves therefore to every human institution for the Lords sake; whether to the 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

O God

Non

Matthew 5:16

In like manner let your light 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, wherein ye are evil spoken of, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conduct in Christ.

Luke 19:44

and will level thee with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they will not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

2 Corinthians 8:21

for we take forethought for what is honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

1 Peter 4:11

If any one speak, let him speak as uttering the oracles of God; if any minister, let him do it as from the ability which God giveth; that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Matthew 5:11

Blessed are ye, when men revile you, and persecute you, and say every thing that is bad against you, falsely, for my sake.

Matthew 9:8

And when the multitudes saw it, they were struck with fear, and gave glory to God, who had given such power to men.

Matthew 10:25

It is enough for the disciple to be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they so call those of his household!

Luke 1:68

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel! for he hath visited and redeemed his people,

Luke 6:22

Blessed are ye when men hate you, and when they exclude you, and revile and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of man.

Acts 15:14

Simeon hath related how God first visited the gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

Acts 24:5-6

For we have found this man to be a pest, and a mover of sedition 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 when he had come, the Jews who came down from Jerusalem stood around, bringing many and heavy charges which they could not prove;

Romans 12:17

Render to no one evil for evil; have regard to what is honorable in the sight of all men.

Romans 13:13

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in lewdness and wantonness, not in strife and envy;

Romans 15:9

and that the gentiles glorified God for his mercy, as it is written, "For this cause I will give praise to thee among the gentiles, and sing to thy name."

1 Corinthians 14:25

the secrets of his heart become manifest; and so falling down on his face, he will worship God, and report that God is indeed within you.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and the sincerity which is of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

2 Corinthians 13:7

Now we pray to God that ye do no evil; not in order that we may appear approved, but that ye may do what is good, though we be as unapproved.

Ephesians 2:3

among whom even we all 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 children of wrath, even as others;

Ephesians 4:22

that as to your former way of life ye should put off the old man, who perisheth according to the lusts of deceit,

Philippians 1:27

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or remain absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,

Philippians 2:15-16

that ye may be blameless and pure, children of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom ye shine as luminaries in the world,

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are right, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

1 Thessalonians 4:12

that ye may walk becomingly toward those without, and may have need of nothing.

1 Timothy 2:2

for kings, and all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all godliness and propriety.

1 Timothy 4:12

Let no one despise thy youth, but become an example to the believers, in word, in behavior, in love, in faith, in purity.

Titus 2:7-8

in all things showing thyself a pattern of good works, in teaching showing uncorruptness, gravity,

Hebrews 13:5

Let your disposition be without covetousness, and be content with what ye have; for he hath said, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee;"

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us; for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring in all things to conduct ourselves well;

James 3:13

Who is wise and endued with knowledge among you P let him show out of a good course of conduct his works in meekness of wisdom.

1 Peter 3:1-2

In like manner, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, that even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be won by the behavior of the wives,

1 Peter 4:14-16

If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you.

2 Peter 3:11

Seeing that all these things are thus to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in holy conduct and godliness,