1 Peter 2:12 Cross References - MNT

¹² Let your manner of life before the Gentiles be honest; so that, although they are now slandering you as evil-doers, they may, by beholding your noble conduct, come to glorify God, in the day of visitation.

¹¹ "Blessed are you when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my name's sake.

¹⁶ "So let your light shine before men that they may see good you do, and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

⁸ But all the crowd were awestruck, and glorified God, who had given such power to men.

²⁵ "It is enough for the pupil to fare like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more, the members of his household.

⁶⁸ "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, For he has visited and redeemed his people,

²² "Blessed are you when men shall hate you, And excommunicate you and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil because of the Son of man.

⁴⁴ "you and your children within you. And they will not leave in you one stone upon the another. Because you knew not the time of your visitation."

¹⁴ "Brothers, listen to me. Symeon has told how God first looked graciously upon the Gentiles, to take out from among them a people to be called by his name.

⁵ "For we have found this fellow a pest, an inciter of insurrection among all the Jews of the empire, and a ringleader in the heresy of the Nazarenes. ⁶ "He even tried to profane the Temple, but we arrested him.

¹³ "Nor can they prove the charges which they are now bringing against me.

⁷ When he came in, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him and brought a number of serious charges against him, which they could not prove.

¹⁷ Do not pay back evil for evil. Aim to do what is honorable in the eyes of all.

¹³ Let us live honestly, as in the day, Not in reveling and drunkenness, Not in lust and licentiousness, Not is strife and jealousy;

⁹ and so that the Gentiles also should praise God for his mercy, as it is written, Therefore I will offer praise to thee among the Gentiles, And sing to thy name.

²⁵ and the secret depths of his heart are laid open. So he will fall upon his face and worship God, saying, "Of a truth, God is with you."

¹² For this is my proud boast, the testimony of my conscience, that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that I have conducted myself in the world, and above all in my relations with you.

²¹ For I aim at being above reproach, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

⁷ And my prayer to God is that you may do no evil; not in order that I may appear approved, but that you may do what is noble, though I should seem unable to abide the proof.

³ And among them we all once passed our lives, indulging the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of our senses and temperament, and were by nature the children of wrath like all the rest.

²² You have learned to lay aside, with your former manner of living, the old self who was on his way to ruin, as he followed the desires which deceive;

²⁷ Only do lead lives worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come to see you or hear reports concerning you in my absence, I may know that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul, enlisted in a common struggle for the faith of the gospel,

¹⁵ that you may become blameless and innocent, the sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in a dark world, ¹⁶ holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing.

⁸ Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if virtue is anything, if honor is anything, be always thinking about these.

¹² So that your conduct may be seemly toward those that are without, and that you may not need help from any man.

² for kings and all who are in authority, in order that we may lead a tranquil and peaceful life in all godliness an gravity.

¹² Let no one despise you on account of your youth, but become an example for the faithful in word, in life, in love, in faith, in purity.

⁷ In your teaching be serious and sincere. ⁸ Let the instruction that you give be sound and above reproach, so that our opponents may be ashamed because they find no evil things to say about us.

⁵ Let your life be untainted by love of money; be content with such things as you have; for God himself has said, I will never leave thee; I will never forsake thee.

¹⁸ Keep on praying for me. I am persuaded that I have a clear conscience, and I desire in every way to live nobly.

¹³ Who among you is wise and intelligent? Let him show his deeds by his good life, in the meekness of wisdom.

¹ In the same way you wives must be submissive to your own husbands; so that if some of them will not believe the message, they may apart from the message be won over by the behavior of their wives, ² when they see how pure and reverent you are.

¹⁶ See that you have a clear conscience, so that, although they speak of you as evil-doers, these libelers of your good Christian lives may be ashamed.

¹¹ If any one preaches, let him always preach as one who utters God's truth; if any one serves another, let it be with the strength which God supplies; so that in every way God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory and dominion for ever and ever, Amen.

¹⁴ If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of God is resting upon you. ¹⁵ But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as a spy upon other people's business. ¹⁶ But if any man is suffering as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him ever glorify God in this Name.

¹¹ Now since all things are in the process of dissolution, what kind of men ought you to be, in all holy living and piety;