1 Peter 2:15

Modern King James Version

For such is the will of God, doing good to silence the ignorance of foolish men;

Cross References

Job 2:10

But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish ones speak. 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.

Job 5:16

And there is hope for the weak, and injustice shuts her mouth.

Psalm 107:42

The upright shall see and rejoice; and all iniquity shall stop its mouth.

Psalm 5:5

The foolish shall not stand in Your sight. You hate all doers of iniquity.

Proverbs 9:6

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

Jeremiah 4:22

For My people are foolish; they have not known Me; they are stupid sons, and they have no 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 everyone who hears these sayings of Mine and does not do them shall be compared to a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

Romans 1:21

Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Galatians 3:1

O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you not to obey the truth, to whom before your eyes Jesus Christ was written among you crucified?

Deuteronomy 32:6

Do you thus give back to Jehovah, Oh foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?

1 Thessalonians 4:3

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

1 Thessalonians 5:18

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

1 Timothy 1:13

the one who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and insolent. But I obtained mercy, because being ignorant, I did it in unbelief.

Titus 2:8

in sound speech that cannot be condemned, that he who is opposed may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

1 Peter 2:12

having your conduct honest among the nations, in that which they speak against you as evildoers, they may glorify God in a day of His visitation, seeing your good works.

1 Peter 3:16

having a good conscience, that while they speak against you as evildoers they may be shamed, those falsely accusing your good behavior in Christ.

1 Peter 3:17

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

1 Peter 4:2

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

2 Peter 2:12

But these, as unreasoning natural brute animals having been born for capture and corruption, speak evil of the things that they do not understand. And they will utterly perish in their own corruption,

Jude 1:10

But what things they do not know, they speak evil of. And what things they understand naturally, like the animals without reason, they are corrupted by these.