¹⁸ For the one who ^(A)serves Christ in this way is ^(B)acceptable to God and approved by other people.

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