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

¹¹ BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul, ¹² having your conduct honorable among the gentiles, that wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, from the good works which they see they may glorify God in the day of visitation,

¹³ Be subject therefore to every human government, for the Lord's sake, whether to the king, as superior, ¹⁴ to governors, sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and the praise of those who do well; ¹⁵ for this is the will of God, that by well-doing you may silence the ignorance of foolish men; ¹⁶ as free, and not using freedom for a cloak of vice, but as servants of God. ¹⁷ Honor all men, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.