Praying from 1 Peter 2:12 relating to Behavior, Witnessing, Glory

Dear God, please help me to have good behavior among the nations, even when they speak against me as an evildoer. May my actions and words reflect your love and goodness, so that others may see your light shining through me. And in the day of visitation, may they glorify you and come to know your grace and mercy. Amen.

Verse: having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation.
1 Peter 2:12

This is a Command. The verse commands the reader to have good behavior among the nations so that when they speak against the reader as evildoers, they may see the reader’s good works and glorify God in the day of visitation.

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