1 Peter 2:12

New Living Translation

¹²Be careful to live properly among your unbelieving neighbors. Then even if they accuse you of doing wrong, they will see your honorable behavior, and they will give honor to God when he judges the world.^[a]

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2:12 Or on the day of visitation.

1 Peter 2:12

Amplified Bible

¹²Keep your behavior excellent among the [unsaved] Gentiles [conduct yourself honorably, with graciousness and integrity], so that ^[a]for whatever reason they may slander you as evildoers, yet by observing your good deeds they may [instead come to] glorify God ^[b]in the day of visitation [when He looks upon them with mercy].

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1 Peter 2:12 Lit in that which.
1 Peter 2:12 Another view interprets this as the day when the wicked are judged by God.

1 Peter 2:12

New International Version

¹²Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds^(A) and glorify God^(B) on the day he visits us.

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