First Letter of Peter

Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

having good behavior among the nations, so in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to those who do well.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: