1 Peter 2:15

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

Job 2:10

But he said to her, You 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 did not Job sin with his lips.

Job 5:16

So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.

Psalm 107:42

The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

Psalm 5:5

The foolish shall not stand in your sight: you hate all workers of iniquity.

Proverbs 9:6

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are silly children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Matthew 25:2

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

Matthew 7:26

And every one that hears these sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, which built his house on the sand:

Romans 1:21

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Galatians 3:1

O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

Deuteronomy 32:6

Do you thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your father that has bought you? has he not made you, and established you?

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:

1 Thessalonians 5:18

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

1 Timothy 1:13

Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

Titus 2:8

Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

1 Peter 2:12

Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 Peter 3:16

Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

1 Peter 3:17

For it is better, if the will of God be so, that you suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

1 Peter 4:2

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

2 Peter 2:12

But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

Jude 1:10

But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.