1 Peter 2:15

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,

Cross References

Job 2:10

He said to her, "You have spoken like one of the foolish wives. If we accepted good things from the hand of God, why should we not accept bad things?" In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.

Job 5:16

And there will be hope for those in need, for iniquity will diminish its speech.

Psalm 5:5

In the morning, I will stand before you, and I will see. For you are not a God who wills iniquity.

Proverbs 9:6

Leave behind childishness. And live and walk by the ways of prudence."

Jeremiah 4:22

For my foolish people have not known me. They are foolish and mad sons. They are clever in doing evil, but they do not know how to do good.

Matthew 25:2

But five of them were foolish, and five were prudent.

Matthew 7:26

And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them shall be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.

Romans 1:21

For although they had known God, they did not glorify God, nor give thanks. Instead, they became weakened in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was obscured.

Galatians 3:1

O senseless Galatians, who has so fascinated you that you would not obey the truth, even though Jesus Christ has been presented before your eyes, crucified among you?

Deuteronomy 32:6

How can this be the return you would offer to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is he himself not your Father, who has possessed you, and made you, and created you?

1 Thessalonians 4:3

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

1 Thessalonians 5:18

Give thanks in everything. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for all of you.

1 Timothy 1:13

though previously I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and contemptuous. But then I obtained the mercy of God. For I had been acting ignorantly, in unbelief.

Titus 2:8

with sound words, irreproachably, so that he who is an opponent may dread that he has nothing evil to say about us.

Titus 3:3

For, in times past, we ourselves were also unwise, unbelieving, erring, servants of various desires and pleasures, acting with malice and envy, being hateful and hating one another.

1 Peter 2:12

Keep your behavior among the Gentiles to what is good, so that, when they slander you as if you were evildoers, they may, by the good works that are seen in you, glorify God on the day of visitation.

1 Peter 3:16

But do so with meekness and fear, having a good conscience, so that, in whatever matter they may slander you, they shall be confounded, since they falsely accuse your good behavior in Christ.

1 Peter 3:17

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

1 Peter 4:2

so that now he may live, for the remainder of his time in the flesh, not by the desires of men, but by the will of God.

2 Peter 2:12

Yet truly, these others, like irrational beasts, naturally fall into traps and into ruin by blaspheming whatever they do not understand, and so they shall perish in their corruption,

Jude 1:10

But these men certainly blaspheme against whatever they do not understand. And yet, whatever they, like mute animals, know from nature, in these things they are corrupted.