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

¹¹ Dearly beloved, I beg you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the evil desires of your lower nature, because they are always at war with the soul. ¹² Keep on living upright lives among the heathen, so that, when they slander you as evildoers, by what they see of your good deeds they may come to praise God on the judgment day.

¹³ For the Lord's sake submit to all human authority; to the emperor as supreme, ¹⁴ and to governors as sent by Him to punish those who do evil and to reward those who do right. ¹⁵ For it is God's will that by doing right you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people. ¹⁶ Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for doing evil, but live like slaves of God. ¹⁷ Show honor to everyone. Practice love for the brotherhood; practice reverence to God and honor to the Emperor.