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1 Peter 2:11-13
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
1 Peter 2:11-13
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
11 Beloved, I implore you as aliens and strangers and exiles [in this world] to abstain from the sensual urges (the evil desires, the passions of the flesh, your lower nature) that wage war against the soul.
12 Conduct yourselves properly (honorably, righteously) among the Gentiles, so that, although they may slander you as evildoers, [yet] they may by witnessing your good deeds [come to] glorify God in the day of inspection [[a]when God shall look upon you wanderers as a pastor or shepherd looks over his flock].
13 Be submissive to every human institution and authority for the sake of the Lord, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,
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- 1 Peter 2:12 J. Rawson Lumby, cited by Speaker’s Commentary.
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