As Newborn Babes

Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God on the day of visitation.

and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who disparage your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.

In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them in the same excesses of debauchery, and they slander you;