¹² Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.

¹⁵ For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.

¹⁹ For it is commendable if someone bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because they are conscious of God.