knowing that you were not redeemed from your vain mode of life received by tradition from your fathers, with destructible things, silver or gold,

maintaining an honorable mode of life am one the Gentiles, that, inasmuch as they speak against you as evil-doers, they may, on account of your good works which they witness, glorify God in the day of visitation.

seeing your pure mode of life in the fear [of God].