1 Peter 2:12

Geneva Bible (1560)

And haue your conuersation honest among the Gentiles, that they which speake euill of you as of euill doers, may by your good woorkes which they shall see, glorifie God in the day of visitation.

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  • Matt 5:16 : 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good workes, and glorifie your Father which is in heauen.
  • 1 Pet 3:16 : 16 Hauing a good coscience, that whe they speake euill of you as of euill doers, they may be ashamed, which slander your good conuersation in Christ.
  • Phil 2:15-16 : 15 That ye may be blamelesse, & pure, and the sonnes of God without rebuke in the middes of a naughtie and crooked nation, among whom yee shine as lights in the world, 16 Holding forth the worde of life, that I may reioyce in the day of Christ, that I haue not runne in vaine, neither haue laboured in vaine.
  • 2 Cor 8:21 : 21 Prouiding for honest thinges, not onely before the Lord, but also before men.
  • Phil 1:27 : 27 Onely let your conuersation be, as it becommeth the Gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or els be absent, I may heare of your matters that ye continue in one Spirit, and in one mind, fighting together through the faith of the Gospel.
  • 1 Thess 4:12 : 12 That yee may behaue your selues honestly towarde them that are without, and that nothing be lacking vnto you.
  • Titus 2:7-8 : 7 In all things shewe thy selfe an ensample of good woorkes with vncorrupt doctrine, with grauitie, integritie, 8 And with the wholesome woorde, which can not be condemned, that hee which withstandeth, may be ashamed, hauing nothing concerning you to speake euill of.
  • Rom 13:13 : 13 So that wee walke honestly, as in the day: not in gluttonie, and drunkennesse, neither in chambering and wantonnes, nor in strife and enuying.
  • 1 Tim 4:12 : 12 Let no man despise thy youth, but be vnto them that beleeue, an ensample, in worde, in conuersation, in loue, in spirit, in faith, and in purenesse.
  • Rom 12:17 : 17 Recompence to no man euill for euill: procure things honest in the sight of all men.
  • Luke 19:44 : 44 And shall make thee euen with ye ground, and thy children which are in thee, and they shall not leaue in thee a stone vpon a stone, because thou knewest not that season of thy visitation.
  • Matt 5:11 : 11 Blessed shall ye be when men reuile you, and persecute you, & say all maner of euill against you for my sake, falsely.
  • 1 Pet 4:14-16 : 14 If yee be railed vpon for the Name of Christ, blessed are ye: for the spirit of glory, and of God resteth vpon you: which on their part is euill spoken of: but on your part is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murtherer, or as a thiefe, or an euil doer, or as a busibodie in other mens matters. 16 But if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not bee ashamed: but let him glorifie God in this behalfe.
  • 1 Tim 2:2 : 2 For Kings, and for all that are in authoritie, that we may leade a quiet and a peaceable life, in all godlinesse and honestie.
  • Phil 4:8 : 8 Furthermore, brethre, whatsoeuer things are true, whatsoeuer things are honest, whatsoeuer thinges are iust, whatsoeuer thinges are pure, whatsoeuer thinges are worthie loue, whatsoeuer things are of good report, if there be any vertue, or if there be any praise, thinke on these things,
  • Eph 4:22 : 22 That is, that yee cast off, concerning the conuersation in time past, that olde man, which is corrupt through the deceiueable lustes,
  • 2 Pet 3:11 : 11 Seeing therefore that all these thinges must be dissolued, what maner persons ought ye to be in holy conuersation and godlinesse,
  • 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 If any man speake, let him speake as the wordes of God. If any man minister, let him do it as of the abilitie which God ministreth, that God in al things may be glorified through Iesus Christ, to whome is prayse and dominion for euer, and euer, Amen.
  • Jas 3:13 : 13 Who is a wise man & endued with knowledge among you? let him shew by good conuersation his workes in meekenesse of wisdome.
  • Ps 37:14 : 14 The wicked haue drawen their sworde, and haue bent their bowe, to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of vpright conuersation.
  • Ps 50:23 : 23 He that offereth praise, shall glorifie mee: and to him, that disposeth his way aright, will I shew the saluation of God.
  • Isa 10:3 : 3 What will ye doe nowe in the day of visitation, and of destruction, which shall come from farre? To whom will ye flee for helpe? And where will ye leaue your glorie?
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our reioycing is this, the testimonie of our conscience, that in simplicitie and godly purenesse, and not in fleshly wisedome, but by the grace of God wee haue had our conuersation in the worlde, and most of all to you wardes.
  • Rom 15:9 : 9 And let the Gentiles prayse God, for his mercie, as it is written, For this cause I wil confesse thee among the Gentiles, and sing vnto thy Name.
  • 1 Cor 14:25 : 25 And so are the secrets of his heart made manifest, and so he will fall downe on his face and worship God, and say plainely that God is in you in deede.
  • Acts 15:14 : 14 Simeon hath declared, howe God first did visite the Gentiles, to take of them a people vnto his Name.
  • Acts 24:5-6 : 5 Certainely we haue found this man a pestilent fellowe, and a moouer of sedition among all the Iewes throughout the world, and a chiefe maintainer of the secte of the Nazarites: 6 And hath gone about to pollute the Temple: therefore wee tooke him, and woulde haue iudged him according to our Lawe:
  • Acts 24:13 : 13 Neither can they proue the things, whereof they now accuse me.
  • Gen 13:7-8 : 7 Also there was debate betweene ye heardmen of Abrams cattell, & the heardmen of Lots cattell. (and the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelled at that time in the land.) 8 Then saide Abram vnto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, betweene thee and me, neither betweene mine heardmen & thine heardmen: for we be brethren.
  • Matt 9:8 : 8 So when the multitude sawe it, they marueiled, and glorified God, which had giuen such authoritie to men.
  • Matt 10:25 : 25 It is ynough for the disciple to bee as his master is, and the seruaunt as his Lorde. If they haue called the master of the house Beel-zebub, howe much more them of his housholde?
  • Luke 1:68 : 68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because he hath visited and redeemed his people,
  • Luke 6:22 : 22 Blessed are ye when men hate you, and when they separate you, & reuile you, & put out your name as euill, for the Sonne of mans sake.
  • 1 Pet 3:1-2 : 1 Likewise let the wiues bee subiect to their husbandes, that euen they which obey not the worde, may without the worde be wonne by the conuersation of the wiues, 2 While they beholde your pure conuersation, which is with feare.
  • Heb 13:5 : 5 Let your conuersation be without couetousnesse, and be content with those things that ye haue, for he hath said,
  • Heb 13:18 : 18 Pray for vs: for we are assured that we haue a good conscience in all things, desiring to liue honestly.
  • 2 Cor 13:7 : 7 Nowe I pray vnto God that yee doe none euill, not that we should seeme approued, but that ye should doe that which is honest: though we be as reprobates.
  • Eph 2:3 : 3 Among whom we also had our conuersation in time past, in the lustes of our flesh, in fulfilling the will of the flesh, and of the minde, and were by nature the children of wrath, as well as others.
  • Acts 25:7 : 7 And when hee was come, the Iewes which were come fro Hierusalem, stoode about him and layd many and grieuous complaints against Paul, whereof they could make no plaine proofe,

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