12Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.
13Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,
— 1 Peter 2:12-13

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