1 Peter 2:15

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For it is God’s will  that you silence the ignorance  of foolish people by doing good.

Cross References

1 Peter 3:17

For it is better to suffer  for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.

Titus 2:8

Your message is to be sound beyond reproach,  so that any opponent will be ashamed, because he doesn’t have anything bad to say about us.

1 Peter 2:12

Conduct  yourselves honourably among the Gentiles,  so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits.

Matthew 7:26

But everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

give thanks in everything; for this is God’s will  for you in Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is God’s will,  your sanctification:  that you keep away  from sexual immorality,

Jeremiah 4:22

‘For my people are fools; they do not know me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing what is evil, but they do not know how to do what is good.’

2 Peter 2:12

But these people, like irrational animals #– #creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed #– #slander what they do not understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed.

Romans 1:21

For though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became worthless, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

Proverbs 9:6

Leave inexperience behind, and you will live; pursue the way of understanding.

Job 2:10

‘You speak as a foolish woman speaks,’ he told her. ‘Should we accept only good from God and not adversity? ’ Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.

Jude 1:10

But these people blaspheme anything they do not understand. And what they do understand by instinct #– #like irrational animals #– #by these things they are destroyed.

1 Peter 4:2

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

1 Timothy 1:13

even though I was formerly a blasphemer,  a persecutor,  and an arrogant man.  But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief,

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions  and pleasures,  living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

Galatians 3:1

You foolish  Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you,  before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed  as crucified?

Matthew 25:2

Five of them were foolish and five were wise.

Job 5:16

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

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is this how you repay the  Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Isn’t he your Father and Creator?  , Didn’t he make you and sustain you?

1 Peter 3:16

Yet do this with gentleness and reverence, keeping a clear conscience,  so that when you are accused,  those who disparage your good conduct in Christ will be put to shame.