1 Peter 2:12 CPDV

¹⁰  Though in past times you were not a people, yet now you are the people of God. Though you had not obtained mercy, yet now you have obtained mercy.

¹¹  Most beloved, I beg you, as new arrivals and sojourners, to abstain from carnal desires, which battle against the soul.

¹²  Keep your behavior among the Gentiles to what is good, so that, when they slander you as if you were evildoers, they may, by the good works that are seen in you, glorify God on the day of visitation.

¹³  Therefore, be subject to every human creature because of God, whether it is to the king as preeminent,

¹⁴  or to leaders as having been sent from him for vindication over evildoers, it is truly for the praise of what is good.