1 Peter 3:16

Bible in Basic English 1965

Being conscious that you have done no wrong; so that those who say evil things about your good way of life as Christians may be put to shame.

Cross References

Daniel 6:4

Then the chief rulers and the captains were looking for some cause for putting Daniel in the wrong in connection with the kingdom, but they were unable to put forward any wrongdoing or error against him; because he was true, and no error or wrong was to be seen in him.

Matthew 5:11

Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me.

Acts 24:16

Now after a number of years I came to give help and offerings to my nation:

Acts 28:22

But we have a desire to give hearing to your opinion: for as to this form of religion, we have knowledge that in all places it is attacked.

Romans 9:1

I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

2 Corinthians 4:2

And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong.

1 Timothy 1:19

Keeping faith, and being conscious of well-doing; for some, by not doing these things, have gone wrong in relation to the faith:

1 Timothy 1:5

But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:

2 Timothy 1:3

I give praise to God, whose servant I have been, with a heart free from sin, from the time of my fathers, because in my prayers at all times the thought of you is with me, night and day

Titus 2:8

Saying true and right words, against which no protest may be made, so that he who is not on our side may be put to shame, unable to say any evil of us.

Hebrews 13:18

Make prayers for us, for we are certain that our hearts are free from the sense of sin, desiring the right way of life in all things.

Hebrews 9:14

How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?

1 Peter 2:12

Being of good behaviour among the Gentiles; so that though they say now that you are evil-doers, they may see your good works and give glory to God when he comes to be their judge.

1 Peter 2:15

Because it is God's pleasure that foolish and narrow-minded men may be put to shame by your good behaviour:

1 Peter 2:19

For it is a sign of grace if a man, desiring to do right in the eyes of God, undergoes pain as punishment for something which he has not done.

1 Peter 3:21

And baptism, of which this is an image, now gives you salvation, not by washing clean the flesh, but by making you free from the sense of sin before God, through the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead;

1 Peter 4:4

And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you: