1 Peter 2:12

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

and have ye your conversation [or your life] good among heathen men, that in that thing that they backbite of you, as of mis-doers, they behold you of good works, and glorify God in the day of visitation.

Cross References

Psalm 37:14

Sinners have drawn out sword; they bent their bow. To deceive a poor man and needy; to strangle rightful [or right] men of heart.

Psalm 50:23

The sacrifice of praising shall honour me; and there is the way, wherein I shall show to him the health of God.

Isaiah 10:3

What shall ye do in the day of visitation, and of wretchedness coming from [a] far? To whose help shall ye flee? and where shall ye leave your glory,

Daniel 6:4

Wherefore princes and dukes, either prefects, sought to find occasion to Daniel, of the side of the king; and they might find no cause and suspicion, for he was faithful, and no blame and suspicion was found in him.

Matthew 10:25

it is enough to the disciple, that he be as his master, and to the servant as his lord. If they have called the husbandman, [or the father of the meine], Beelzebub, how much more his household meine?

Matthew 5:11

Blessed be ye, when men shall curse you, and shall pursue you, and shall say all evil against you lying, for me.

Matthew 5:16

So shine your light before men, that they see your good works, and glorify your Father that is in heavens.

Matthew 9:8

And the people seeing dreaded, and glorified God, that gave such power to men.

Luke 1:68

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited, and made redemption of his people.

Luke 19:44

and cast thee down to the earth, and thy sons [or thy children] that be in thee; and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, for thou hast not known the time of thy visitation.

Luke 6:22

Ye shall be blessed, when men shall hate you, and separate you away, and put reproof to you [or shall put shame on you], and cast out your name as evil, for man’s Son.

John 13:31

Therefore when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now man’s Son is clarified, and God is clarified in him.

Acts 15:14

Simon told, how God visited, first to take of heathen men, a people to his name. [Simon told, how first God visited, to take of heathen men a people to his name.]

Acts 24:13

neither they may prove to thee, of the which things they now accuse me.

Acts 25:7

And when he was brought forth, Jews stood about him, which came down from Jerusalem, putting against him many and grievous causes, which they might not prove.

Acts 28:22

But we pray to hear of thee, what things thou feelest; for of this sect it is known to us, that everywhere men gainsaith it.

Romans 12:17

to no man yielding evil for evil, but purvey ye good things, not only before God, but also before all men.

Romans 13:13

As in [the] day wander we honestly, not in superfluous feasts [or in oft eatings], and drunkennesses, not in beds and unchastities, not in strife and in envy;

Romans 14:18

And he that in this thing serveth Christ, pleaseth God, and is proved to men.

Romans 15:9

And heathen men owe to honour God for mercy; as it is written, Therefore, Lord, I shall acknowledge to thee among heathen men, and I shall sing to thy name.

1 Corinthians 14:25

For the hid things of his heart be known, and so he shall fall down on the face, and shall worship God, and show verily that God is in you.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our glory is this, the witness-ing of our conscience, that in simple-ness and cleanness of God, and not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we lived in this world, but more plenteously to you.

2 Corinthians 13:7

And we pray the Lord, that ye do nothing of evil; not that we seem proved, but that ye do that that is good, and that we be as reprovable.

2 Corinthians 8:21

For we purvey good things, not only before God, but also before all men.

Ephesians 2:3

in which also we all lived sometime in the desires of our flesh, doing the wills of the flesh and of the thoughts, and we were by kind the sons of wrath, as other men;

Ephesians 4:22

Do ye away by the old living [or after the first living], the old man, that is corrupt by the desires of error;

Philippians 1:27

Only live ye worthily to the gospel of Christ, that whether when I come and see you, either absent I hear of you, that ye stand in one spirit of one will, travailing together to the faith of the gospel.

Philippians 4:8

From henceforth, brethren, what-ever things be sooth, whatever things chaste, whatever things just, whatever things holy, whatever things able to be loved, [or amiable, or lovable], whatever things of good fame, if any virtue, if any praising of discipline, think ye these things,

1 Thessalonians 4:12

and that ye wander honestly to them that be withoutforth, and that of no man ye desire anything.

1 Timothy 2:2

for kings and all that be set in highness, that we lead a quiet and a peaceable life, in all piety and chastity.

1 Timothy 4:12

No man despise thy youth, but be thou ensample of faithful men, in word, in living, in charity, in faith, in chastity.

1 Timothy 5:10

and hath witnessing in good works, if she nourished children, if she re-ceived poor men to harbour, if she hath washed the feet of holy men, if she ministered to men that suffered trib-ulation, if she followed all good work.

Hebrews 13:18

Pray ye for us, and we trust that we have good conscience in all things, willing to live well.

Hebrews 13:5

Be your manners without covetousness, satisfied with present things; for he said, I shall not leave thee, neither forsake,

James 3:13

Who is wise, and taught among you? show he of good living his working [or his work], in mildness of his wisdom.

1 Peter 2:15

For so is the will of God, that ye do well, and make the unknowing-ness of unprudent [or unwise] men to be dumb.

1 Peter 3:16

having good conscience; that in that thing that they backbite of you, they be confounded, which challenge falsely your good conversation in Christ.

1 Peter 4:11

If any man speaketh, speak he as the words of God; if any man ministereth, as of the virtue which God ministereth; that God be honoured in all things by Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom is glory and lordship into worlds of worlds. Amen.

2 Peter 3:11

Therefore when all these things shall be dissolved, what manner men behooveth it you to be in holy livings and piety,

Ruth 3:14

Therefore she slept at his feet till to the going away of [the] night, and then she rose, before that men should know each other. And Boaz said to her, Be thou ware lest any man know, that thou camest hither.