^12 (A)by keeping your conduct excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing which they ^(B)slander you as evildoers, they may ^[a]because of your good works, as they observe them, ^(C)glorify God ^(D)in the day of ^[b]visitation.

³ For ^(A)the time already past is sufficient for you to have worked out the desire of the Gentiles, ^[a](B)having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and ^[b]abominable idolatries.