Study it in the app“keeping your conduct among the nations good, so that, in what they speak against you as evildoers, by observing your good works they may glorify God on the day of visitation.”
keepingἔχοντεςyour conductτὴν ἀναστροφὴν ὑμῶνamongἐνthe nationsτοῖς ἔθνεσινgood,καλήνso that,ἵναinἐνwhatᾧthey speak againstκαταλαλοῦσινyouὑμῶνasὡςevildoers,κακοποιῶνbyἐκobservingἐποπτεύοντεςyour good worksτῶν καλῶν ἔργωνthey may glorifyδοξάσωσιGodτὸν θεὸνonἐνthe dayἡμέρᾳof visitation.ἐπισκοπῆς
have
To count something or someone as one's own: goods, family, faith, power.
Where else “echontes” appearsconduct, way of life
Conduct, the way one lives day by day.
Where else “anastrophēn” appearsGentile
The peoples who are not Israel.
Where else “ethnesin” appearsbeautiful
Lovely to look at.
Where else “kalēn” appearsspeak against
Speak against someone, slander, speak evil of them.
Where else “katalalousin” appearsevildoer
Evildoer: someone who does wrong.
Where else “kakopoiōn” appearsobserve
Observe, watch closely, see for oneself.
Where else “epopteuontes” appearsdeed
What someone does, their conduct.
Where else “ergōn” appearsglorify
Glorify: honor, give glory.
Where else “doxasōsi” appearsGod
The Creator and Lord of all, the one God of Israel.
Where else “theon” appearsjudgment day
The day of the Lord, when God judges the world.
Where else “hēmerai” appearsvisitation
God comes to see, to save or judge.
Where else “episkopēs” appears“The day of visitation”: the day when God comes to intervene, for judgment or for salvation.
11Beloved, I urge you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from the fleshly desires which wage war against the soul.
12 · This verse (above)
13Submit to every human institution for the sake of the Lord, whether to the king as the one in authority,
