1 Peter 2:15

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Job 2:10

But he said to her, “You speak as foolish women do. We accept good things from God; should we not accept evil?” Through all this, Job did not sin in what he said. Job’s Three Friends.

Job 5:16

Thus the needy have hope, and iniquity closes its mouth.

Psalm 107:42

The upright saw this and rejoiced; all wickedness shut its mouth.

Psalm 5:5

You are not a god who delights in evil; no wicked person finds refuge with you;

Proverbs 9:6

Forsake foolishness that you may live; advance in the way of understanding.”

Jeremiah 4:22

My people are fools, they do not know me; They are senseless children, without understanding; They are wise at evil, but they do not know how to do good.

Matthew 25:2

Five of them were foolish and five were wise.

Matthew 7:26

And everyone who listens to these words of mine but does not act on them will be like a fool who built his house on sand.

Romans 1:21

for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened.

Galatians 3:1

O stupid Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is this how you repay the Lord, so foolish and unwise a people? Is he not your father who begot you, the one who made and established you?

1 Thessalonians 4:3

This is the will of God, your holiness: that you refrain from immorality,

1 Thessalonians 5:18

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

1 Timothy 1:13

I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and an arrogant man, but I have been mercifully treated because I acted out of ignorance in my unbelief.

Titus 2:8

and sound speech that cannot be criticized, so that the opponent will be put to shame without anything bad to say about us.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deluded, slaves to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.

1 Peter 2:12

Maintain good conduct among the Gentiles, so that if they speak of you as evildoers, they may observe your good works and glorify God on the day of visitation. Christian Citizens.

1 Peter 3:16

but do it with gentleness and reverence, keeping your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who defame your good conduct in Christ may themselves be put to shame.

1 Peter 3:17

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

1 Peter 4:2

so as not to spend what remains of one’s life in the flesh on human desires, but on the will of God.

2 Peter 2:12

But these people, like irrational animals born by nature for capture and destruction, revile things that they do not understand, and in their destruction they will also be destroyed,

Jude 1:10

But these people revile what they do not understand and are destroyed by what they know by nature like irrational animals.