Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.

Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves.

Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you.

and maintain good conduct among the non-Christians, so that though they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.