Living Among Not God’s People - 1 Peter 2:11-12

1 Peter 2:11 begins a new section in 1 Peter. In the first two verses of this section, Peter is setting up the general principle for how to live a God-glorifying, Christ-exalting, Gospel-light shining life as we live among those who are not God’s people. The specifics will come in the following verses when we see how to relate to the government, and our employers, and our spouses, and how we’re to respond to suffering on account of our faith. We’ll get to all that. But first, there is this general principle that should govern our conduct among unbelievers, which is simply this: the testimony of your life better match the testimony of your mouth.