1 Peter 2:15

James Moffatt - New Testament

for it is the will of God that by your honest lives you should silence the ignorant charges of foolish persons.

Cross References

1 Peter 3:17

For it is better to suffer for doing right (if that should be the will of God) than for doing wrong.

Titus 2:8

let your words be sound and such that no exception can be taken to them, so that the opposite side may be confounded by finding nothing that they can say to our discredit.

1 Peter 2:12

Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds.

Matthew 7:26

And everyone who listens to these words of mine and does not act upon them will be like a stupid man who built his house on sand.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

thank God for everything — such is his will for you in Christ Jesus;

1 Thessalonians 4:3

It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from sexual vice,

2 Peter 2:12

But those people! — like irrational animals, creatures of mere instinct, born for capture and corruption, they scoff at what they are ignorant of; and like animals they will suffer corruption and ruin,

Romans 1:21

Though they knew God, they have not glorified him as God nor given thanks to him; they have turned to futile speculations till their ignorant minds grew dark.

Jude 1:10

But these people scoff at anything they do not understand; and whatever they do understand, like irrational animals, by mere instinct, that proves their ruin.

1 Peter 4:2

nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.

1 Timothy 1:13

though I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a wanton aggressor. I obtained mercy because in my unbelief I had acted out of ignorance;

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

Galatians 3:1

O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you — you who had Jesus Christ the crucified placarded before your very eyes?

Matthew 25:2

Five of them were stupid and five were sensible.

1 Peter 3:16

see that you have a clean conscience, so that, for all their slander of you, these libellers of your good Christian behaviour may be ashamed.