10. You once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy.
11. Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,
12. and maintain good conduct among the non-Christians, so that though they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.
13. Be subject to every human institution for the Lord’s sake, whether to a king as supreme
14. or to governors as those he commissions to punish wrongdoers and praise those who do good.
15. For God wants you to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.
16. Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves.