having good behavior among the nations, so in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
which they shall behold: Pilgrims cannot be ignored! Peter is saying that God’s people, in their Christian living, cannot be ignored. The lives of Christians are under constant, minute scrutiny by people in the world. This constant, continual examination can result in good, even though the unconverted do it with a wrong motive in mind. Those same people may be led to glorify God. Only when His way of life becomes our way of life will others make it their way of life.