11. Most beloved, I beg you, as new arrivals and sojourners, to abstain from carnal desires, which battle against the soul.
12. Keep your behavior among the Gentiles to what is good, so that, when they slander you as if you were evildoers, they may, by the good works that are seen in you, glorify God on the day of visitation.
13. Therefore, be subject to every human creature because of God, whether it is to the king as preeminent,
14. or to leaders as having been sent from him for vindication over evildoers, it is truly for the praise of what is good.
15. For such is the will of God, that by doing good you may bring about the silence of imprudent and ignorant men,
16. in an open manner, and not as if cloaking malice with liberty, but like servants of God.
17. Honor everyone. Love brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
18. Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and meek, but also to the unruly.
19. For this is grace: when, because of God, a man willingly endures sorrows, suffering injustice.
20. For what glory is there, if you sin and then suffer a beating? But if you do well and suffer patiently, this is grace with God.
21. For you have been called to this because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, so that you would follow in his footsteps.
22. He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.
23. And when evil was spoken against him, he did not speak evil. When he suffered, he did not threaten. Then he handed himself over to him who judged him unjustly.