1 Peter 2:14 DBY

¹²  having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that [as to that] in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through [your] good works, [themselves] witnessing [them], glorify God in [the] day of visitation.

¹³  Be in subjection [therefore] to every human institution for the Lord's sake; whether to [the] king as supreme,

¹⁴  or to rulers as sent by him, for vengeance on evildoers, and praise to them that do well.

¹⁵  Because so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye put to silence the ignorance of senseless men;

¹⁶  as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen.