10. Once you weren’t a people, but now you are God’s people. Once you hadn’t received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
11. Dear friends, since you are immigrants and strangers in the world, I urge that you avoid worldly desires that wage war against your lives.
12. Live honorably among the unbelievers. Today, they defame you, as if you were doing evil. But in the day when God visits to judge they will glorify him, because they have observed your honorable deeds.
13. For the sake of the Lord submit to every human institution. Do this whether it means submitting to the emperor as supreme ruler,
14. or to governors as those sent by the emperor. They are sent to punish those doing evil and to praise those doing good.