Peter is making important statements in the preceding verses regarding suffering not due to our wrong attitudes and actions, but to urge us on to right attitudes and actions:
* Attitude: v. 1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, (1 Peter 2:1)
* Action: v. 12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. (1 Peter 2:12)
* Attitude: v. 16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. (1 Peter 2:16)
* Action & attitude: v.17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. (1 Peter 2:17)
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