New American Standard Bible 1995

1 Peter 2:11-16

11 1Beloved, 2I urge you as 3aliens and strangers to abstain from 4fleshly lusts which wage 5war against the soul. 12 6Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they 7slander you as evildoers, they may 8because of your good deeds, as they observe them, 9glorify God 10in the day of 11visitation.

13 12Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, 14or to governors as sent 13by him 14for the punishment of evildoers and the 15praise of those who do right. 15For 16 17such is the will of God that by doing right you may 18silence the ignorance of foolish men. 16Act as 19free men, and 20do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as 21bondslaves of God.

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Notes

1. 1 Peter 2:11 Heb 6:9; 1 Pet 4:12 ↩
2. 1 Peter 2:11 Rom 12:1 ↩
3. 1 Peter 2:11 Lev 25:23; Ps 39:12; Eph 2:19; Heb 11:13; 1 Pet 1:17 ↩
4. 1 Peter 2:11 Rom 13:14; Gal 5:16, 24 ↩
5. 1 Peter 2:11 James 4:1 ↩
6. 1 Peter 2:12 2 Cor 8:21; Phil 2:15; Titus 2:8; 1 Pet 2:15; 3:16 ↩
7. 1 Peter 2:12 Acts 28:22 ↩
8. 1 Peter 2:12 Or as a result of ↩
9. 1 Peter 2:12 Matt 5:16; 9:8; John 13:31; 1 Pet 4:11, 16 ↩
10. 1 Peter 2:12 Is 10:3; Luke 19:44 ↩
11. 1 Peter 2:12 I.e. Christ’s coming again in judgment ↩
12. 1 Peter 2:13 Rom 13:1 ↩
13. 1 Peter 2:14 Lit through ↩
14. 1 Peter 2:14 Rom 13:4 ↩
15. 1 Peter 2:14 Rom 13:3 ↩
16. 1 Peter 2:15 Lit so ↩
17. 1 Peter 2:15 1 Pet 3:17 ↩
18. 1 Peter 2:15 1 Pet 2:12 ↩
19. 1 Peter 2:16 John 8:32; James 1:25 ↩
20. 1 Peter 2:16 Lit not having ↩
21. 1 Peter 2:16 Rom 6:22; 1 Cor 7:22 ↩

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