1 Peter 2:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τὴν ἀναστροφὴν ὑμῶν ἔχοντες καλήν Ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν: ἵνα, ἐν ᾧ καταλαλοῦσιν ὑμῶν ὡς κακοποιῶν, ἐκ τῶν καλῶν ἔργων, ἐποπτεύσαντες, δοξάσωσιν τὸν Θεὸν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἐπισκοπῆς.

Transliteration

The anastrophēn hymōn echontes kalēn in the ethnesin: hina, in hō katalalousin hymōn hōs kakopoiōn, from the kalōn ergōn, epopteusantes, doxasōsin ton Theon en hēmera episkopēs.

Grammar Details

• *anastrophēn*: noun, feminine singular accusative - conduct/behavior
• *hymōn*: pronoun, 2nd person plural genitive - of you/your
• *echontes*: present active participle, masculine plural nominative - having/maintaining
• *kalēn*: adjective, feminine singular accusative - good/honorable
• *ethnesin*: noun, neuter plural dative - Gentiles/nations
• *hina*: conjunction - so that/in order that
• *hō*: relative pronoun, neuter singular dative - in which/wherein
• *katalalousin*: present active indicative, 3rd person plural - they speak against
• *hōs*: adverb - as/like
• *kakopoiōn*: noun, masculine plural genitive - evildoers
• *kalōn*: adjective, neuter plural genitive - good
• *ergōn*: noun, neuter plural genitive - works/deeds
• *epopteusantes*: aorist active participle, masculine plural nominative - having observed/witnessed
• *doxasōsin*: aorist active subjunctive, 3rd person plural - they may glorify
• *ton Theon*: noun with article, masculine singular accusative - God
• *en*: preposition + dative - in/on
• *hēmera*: noun, feminine singular dative - day
• *episkopēs*: noun, feminine singular genitive - of visitation/inspection

Word Meanings

• *anastrophēn*: conduct/behavior/manner of life
• *echontes*: having/maintaining/keeping
• *kalēn*: good/honorable/excellent
• *ethnesin*: Gentiles/nations/pagans
• *katalalousin*: speak against/slander/defame
• *kakopoiōn*: evildoers/malefactors
• *kalōn*: good/honorable/noble
• *ergōn*: works/deeds/actions
• *epopteusantes*: having observed/witnessed/noticed
• *doxasōsin*: may glorify/honor/praise
• *hēmera episkopēs*: day of visitation/inspection/oversight

Referenced Verses

• Matt 5:16 : 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
• 1 Pet 3:16 : 16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
• Phil 2:15-16 : 15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; 16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
• 2 Cor 8:21 : 21 Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
• Phil 1:27 : 27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
• 1 Thess 4:12 : 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
• Titus 2:7-8 : 7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, 8 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.
• Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
• 1 Tim 4:12 : 12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
• Rom 12:17 : 17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
• Luke 19:44 : 44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
• Matt 5:11 : 11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
• 1 Pet 4:14-16 : 14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. 16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
• 1 Tim 2:2 : 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
• Phil 4:8 : 8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
• Eph 4:22 : 22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
• 2 Pet 3:11 : 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
• 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
• Jas 3:13 : 13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
• Ps 37:14 : 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent{H8804)} their bow, to cast down{H8687)} the poor and needy, and to slay{H8800)} such as be of upright conversation.
• Ps 50:23 : 23 Whoso offereth{H8802)} praise glorifieth{H8762)} me: and to him that ordereth{H8804)} his conversation aright will I shew{H8686)} the salvation of God.
• Isa 10:3 : 3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
• 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
• Rom 15:9 : 9 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.
• 1 Cor 14:25 : 25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
• Acts 15:14 : 14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
• Acts 24:5-6 : 5 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes: 6 Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
• Acts 24:13 : 13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
• Gen 13:7-8 : 7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. 8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
• Matt 9:8 : 8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.
• Matt 10:25 : 25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
• Luke 1:68 : 68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
• Luke 6:22 : 22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
• 1 Pet 3:1-2 : 1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; 2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
• Heb 13:5 : 5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
• Heb 13:18 : 18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
• 2 Cor 13:7 : 7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
• Eph 2:3 : 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
• Acts 25:7 : 7 And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.