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10 awho once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.  

Living Before the World

11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts awhich war against the soul,  
12 ahaving your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, bthey may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.  

Submission to Government

13 aTherefore submit yourselves to every1 ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, whether to the king as supreme,  
14 or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good.
15 For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men—
16 aas free, yet not busing liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.  
17 Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear aGod. Honor the king.  

Submission to Masters

18 aServants, be submissive to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.  
19 For this is acommendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully.  
20 For awhat credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God.  
21 For ato this you were called, because Christ also suffered for1 us, bleaving us an example, that you should follow His steps: 
22 “Who acommitted no sin,
Nor was deceit found in His mouth”;  
23 awho, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but bcommitted Himself to Him who judges righteously;  
24 awho Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, bthat we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—cby whose stripes you were healed.  
25 For ayou were like sheep going astray, but have now returned bto the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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1 Peter 2:12

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 - In all the heathen countries, in the first age of the Church, the Christians and the Jews were confounded together; and as the latter mere everywhere exceedingly troublesome and seditious, the Christians shared in their blame, and suffered no small measure of obloquy and persecution on this very account. It was doubly necessary, therefore, that the Christians should be exceedingly cautious; and that their conduct should Proverbs that, although many of them were of the same nation, yet they who had embraced Christianity differed widely in their spirit and conduct from those, whether Jews or Gentiles, who had not received the faith of Christ.

In the day of visitation - I believe this refers to the time when God should come to execute judgment on the disobedient Jews, in the destruction of their civil polity, and the subversion of their temple and city. God did at that time put a remarkable difference between the Jews and the Christians: all the former were either destroyed or carried into slavery; not one of the latter: nor did they deserve it; for not one of them had joined in the sedition against the Roman government. That the day of visitation means a time in which punishment should be inflicted, is plain from Isaiah 10:3 : And what will ye do in the Day of Visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from afar? To whom will ye flee for help? And where will ye leave your glory? Some think that by the phrase in this place is meant the time in which they should be brought before the heathen magistrates, who, after an impartial examination, should find them innocent, and declare them as such; by which God would be glorified, the work appearing to be his own. Others think that it signifies the time in which God should make them the offer of mercy by Jesus Christ. The words, however, may refer to the time in which the Christians should be called to suffer for the testimony of Christ; the heathens, seeing them bear their sufferings with unconquerable patience, were constrained to confess that God was with them; and not a few, from being spectators of their sufferings, became converts to Christianity,


 
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