having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

or unto governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to them that do well.

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears are open to their cry; But the face of the Lord is set against evil-doers.

Having a good conscience, so that, in what they speak against you as of evil-doers, they may be ashamed, those who revile your good behavior in Christ.

For it is, better, as well-doers, if it should please the pleasure of God, to be suffering, than, as evil-doers:

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters:

not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

Therefore, having put off all evil and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speaking,

Let him turn away from evil, and do good; let him turn away from evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and pursue it.

For, He that would love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile:

wherein they think strange that ye run not with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of of :