Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
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Gill's Exposition
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man,.... Or, "to every human creation", or "creature"; not to "all the sons of men", as the Syriac version renders it; or to all the individuals of mankind; for…
Barnes' Notes
Having your conversation honest - Your conduct. See the notes at Phi 1:27. That is, lead upright and consistent lives. Compare the notes at Phi 4:8. Among the Gentiles - The pagans by whom you are…
Adam Clarke
Having your conversation honest - Living in such a manner among the Gentiles, in whose country ye sojourn, as becomes the Gospel which ye profess.
That whereas they speak against you as evil doers -…
I. The apostle here gives us a description of Jesus Christ as a living stone; and though to a capricious wit, or an infidel, this description may seem rough and harsh, yet to the Jews, who placed much…
Cambridge Bible
having your conversation honest among the Gentiles On "conversation," see note on chap. 1Pe 1:15. There is perhaps no better equivalent for the Greek word than "honest;" but it carries with it the…
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