Chosen, Living, Stones: First Peter Explained, Volume Two

Your behavior, God’s glory, and the souls of men, women, young people, and children are intimately connected. And so, as the Apostle Peter urges, “Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may account of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation" (1 Peter 2:12).