1 Peter 2:15

A Conservative Version

Because this way is the will of God, doing good to muzzle the ignorance of the foolish men.

Cross References

1 Peter 3:17

For it is better to suffer doing good, if the will of God desires, than for doing evil.

Titus 2:8

sound speech, irreproachable, so that the man of opposition may be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

1 Peter 2:12

Having your behavior good among the Gentiles, so that, upon which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, from having observed your good works.

Matthew 7:26

And every man who hears these sayings of mine, and does not do them, will be compared to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

In everything express thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are sottish sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

2 Peter 2:12

But these men, like irrational beasts of nature, having been born for capture and destruction, speaking evil at which things they do not understand, will be destroyed in their corruption,

Romans 1:21

Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.

Proverbs 9:6

Forsake ye simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of understanding.

Job 2:10

But he said to her, Thou speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? 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.

Jude 1:10

But these men indeed revile whatever they have not seen. But whatever they understand naturally, as the irrational beasts, in these things they are corrupted.

1 Peter 4:2

in order to live the remaining time in flesh, no longer by lusts of men, but by the will of God.

1 Timothy 1:13

the man who was formerly blasphemous, and a persecutor, and an aggressor. But I obtained mercy because I did it being ignorant in unbelief.

Psalm 107:42

The upright shall see it, and be glad. And all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

Titus 3:3

For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, being led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, hateful, hating each other.

Galatians 3:1

O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was earlier described among you, crucified?

Matthew 25:2

And five of them were wise, and five were foolish,

Psalm 5:5

The arrogant shall not stand in thy sight. Thou hate all workers of iniquity.

Job 5:16

So a poor man has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Do ye thus requite LORD, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father who has bought thee? He has made thee, and established thee.

1 Peter 3:16

Having a good conscience, so that, in what they speak against you as of evil-doers, they may be ashamed, those who revile your good behavior in Christ.