¹² having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that [as to that] in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through [your] good works, [themselves] witnessing [them], glorify God in [the] day of visitation.

¹³ Be in subjection [therefore] to every human institution for the Lord's sake; whether to [the] king as supreme,

¹⁴ or to rulers as sent by him, for vengeance on evildoers, and praise to them that do well.