1 Peter 2:15

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. whereas: or, wherein

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.