1 Peter 2:15-16

Submission to Authority

¹⁵ For this is the will of God, _q that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. ¹⁶ _r Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but _s living as servants ₁ of God.

1. Cross References
   1 Peter 2:12
   Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
   
2. Cross References
   James 1:25
   But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
   
3. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 7:22
   For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ.
   Romans 6:22
   But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.