1 Peter 2:15 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For it is God's will that by doing right you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For it is God's will and intention that by doing right [your good and honest lives] should silence (muzzle, gag) the ignorant charges and ill-informed criticisms of foolish persons.

American Standard Version (1901)

For so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

Common English Bible

Submit to them because it’s God’s will that by doing good you will silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For such is the will of God, that by doing good you may bring about the silence of imprudent and ignorant men,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For so is the will of God, that by doing well you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

1 Peter 2:15 Cross References

Job 2:10

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Job 5:16

So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

Psalm 107:42

The upright see it and are glad; and all wickedness stops its mouth.

Psalm 5:5

The boastful may not stand before thy eyes; thou hatest all evildoers.

Proverbs 9:6

Leave simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of insight.”

Jeremiah 4:22

“For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are stupid children, they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but how to do good they know not.”

Matthew 25:2

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

Matthew 7:26

And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;

Romans 1:21

for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened.

Galatians 3:1

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

Deuteronomy 32:6

Do you thus requite the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from unchastity;

1 Thessalonians 5:18

give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

1 Timothy 1:13

though I formerly blasphemed and persecuted and insulted him; but I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,

Titus 2:8

and sound speech that cannot be censured, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say of us.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another;

1 Peter 2:12

Maintain good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in case they speak against you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

1 Peter 3:16

and keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are abused, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.

1 Peter 3:17

For it is better to suffer for doing right, if that should be God's will, than for doing wrong.

1 Peter 4:2

so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer by human passions but by the will of God.

2 Peter 2:12

But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed, reviling in matters of which they are ignorant, will be destroyed in the same destruction with them,

Jude 1:10

But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.