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1 Peter 2:12-14
New American Standard Bible 1995
1 Peter 2:12-14
New American Standard Bible 1995
12 (A)Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they (B)slander you as evildoers, they may [a]because of your good deeds, as they observe them, (C)glorify God (D)in the day of [b]visitation.
Honor Authority
13 (E)Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, 14 or to governors as sent [c]by him (F)for the punishment of evildoers and the (G)praise of those who do right.
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- 1 Peter 2:12 Or as a result of
- 1 Peter 2:12 I.e. Christ’s coming again in judgment
- 1 Peter 2:14 Lit through
New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB1995)
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