G0390–ἀναστρέφω–anastrephō

But the officers went and could not find them in the prison. So they came back and brought word,

ἀναστρέψαντες anastrepsantes “having returned”

"`"Afterwards I will return, and will rebuild David's fallen tent. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will set it up again;

ἀναστρέψω anastrepsō “I will return”

For the reason for our boasting is this--the testimony of our own conscience that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, and in reliance not on worldly wisdom but on the gracious help of God, that we have conducted ourselves in the world,

ἀνεστράφημεν anestraphēmen “we have conducted ourselves”

Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.

ἀνεστράφημέν anestraphēmen “lived”

But, for fear I may be hindered, I now write, so that you may have rules to guide you in dealing with God's household. For this is what the Church of the ever-living God is, and it is the pillar and foundation-stone of the truth.

ἀναστρέφεσθαι, anastrephesthai “to conduct oneself,”

This was partly through allowing yourselves to be made a public spectacle amid reproaches and persecutions, and partly through coming forward to share the sufferings of those who were thus treated.

ἀναστρεφομένων anastrephomenōn “passing through [them]”

Keep on praying for us; for we are sure that we have clear consciences, and we desire to live nobly in every respect.

ἀναστρέφεσθαι. anastrephesthai “to conduct ourselves.”

And if you address as your Father Him who judges impartially in accordance with each man's actions, then spend in fear the time of your stay here on earth,

ἀναστράφητε· anastraphēte “do conduct yourselves;”

For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings--every kind of immorality--as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error.

ἀναστρεφομένους, anastrephomenous “living,”