2:12 speak against you as evildoers. Among the charges against Christians in Peter’s time were disloyalty to the emperor (John 19:12), propagation of unlawful customs (Acts 16:20, 21), defamation of the gods (Acts 19:23–27), and general troublemaking (Acts 17:6, 7).

glorify God on the day of visitation. God’s “visitation” is His drawing near either for judgment or mercy.