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Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.(1 Peter 2:12)
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;(1 Peter 2:13)
Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.(1 Peter 2:14)
For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.(1 Peter 2:16)
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.(1 Peter 2:17)
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.(1 Peter 2:18)

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1 Peter 2:15 - Cross Reference

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. (1 Peter 4:2)
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: (1 Thessalonians 4:3)
Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee? (Deuteronomy 32:6)
Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. (1 Timothy 1:13)
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; (2 Peter 2:12)
But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. (Jude 1:10)
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. (Job 2:10)
Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; (Ephesians 6:6)
The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth. (Psalm 107:42)
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. (Psalm 5:5)
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? (Galatians 3:1)
So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. (Job 5:16)
Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. (Titus 2:8)
And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. (Matthew 25:2)
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. (Jeremiah 4:22)
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: (Matthew 7:26)
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. (1 Peter 3:17)
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. (1 Peter 2:12)
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:3)
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. (Proverbs 9:6)
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. (1 Thessalonians 5:18)
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. (Romans 1:21)