Titus and 1 Peter connect public submission, peaceable conduct, and good works with the church’s witness before outsiders. The approved evidence supports this relationship while preserving the distinction between direct quotation, canonical development, and thematic correspondence.

Romans 13 and Titus 3 both call Christians to an ordinarily submissive, peaceable posture toward governing authorities. The canonical overlap is ordinary civic submission under God; Acts 5:29 supplies the wider biblical limit when human commands directly oppose God.

Titus calls believers to normal obedience toward rulers; Acts states the higher boundary when human commands conflict with God: “We ought to obey God rather than men.” Acts states the higher biblical boundary that prevents Titus 3’s normal submission to rulers from becoming unconditional obedience to evil commands.