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)on the day of [b]visitation.

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  1. 1 Peter 2:12 Or as a result of
  2. 1 Peter 2:12 I.e., Christ’s coming again in judgment

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

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15 For [a](A)such is the will of God, that by doing right you (B)silence the ignorance of foolish people.

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  1. 1 Peter 2:15 Lit so

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

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