1 Peter 2:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.”
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“For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:”
King James Version · Public Domain“For so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“because, so is the will of God, doing good, to put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Peter 2:15 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 32:6Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?
- Job 2:10“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
- Job 5:16So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
- Psalms 5:5The boastful cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all workers of iniquity.
- Psalms 107:42The upright see and rejoice, and all iniquity shuts its mouth.
- Proverbs 9:6Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
- Jeremiah 4:22“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
- Matthew 7:26But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
- Matthew 25:2Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
- Romans 1:21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
- Galatians 3:1O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
- Ephesians 6:6And do this not only to please them while they are watching, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
- 1 Thessalonians 5:18Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
- 1 Timothy 1:13I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
- Titus 2:8and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.
- Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
- 1 Peter 2:12Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.
- 1 Peter 3:17For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
- 1 Peter 4:2Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
- 2 Peter 2:12These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.
- Jude 1:10These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.
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