1 Peter 2:15

¹⁷For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing what is right than for doing evil.

⁸and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

²⁶Everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

¹²having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation.

¹⁸In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

³For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

²²“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

⁶not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, ⁷with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men,

²¹Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

¹²But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,