1 Peter 2:11-17 - A Call To Good Works

¹¹ Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; ¹² having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through your good works, themselves witnessing them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

¹³ Be in subjection therefore to every human institution for the Lord's sake; whether to the king as supreme, ¹⁴ or to rulers as sent by him, for vengeance on evildoers, and praise to them that do well. ¹⁵ Because so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye put to silence the ignorance of senseless men; ¹⁶ as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen. ¹⁷ Shew honour to all, love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the king.