1 Peter 2:15

New English Translation

For God wants you to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.

Cross References

Job 2:10

But he replied, “You’re talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?” In all this Job did not sin by what he said.

Job 5:16

Thus the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts its mouth.

Psalm 107:42

When the godly see this, they rejoice, and every sinner shuts his mouth.

Psalm 5:5

Arrogant people cannot stand in your presence; you hate all who behave wickedly.

Proverbs 9:6

Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding.”

Jeremiah 4:22

The Lord answered, “This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”

Matthew 25:2

Five of the virgins were foolish, and five were wise.

Matthew 7:26

Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

Romans 1:21

For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.

Galatians 3:1

You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified!

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish, unwise people? Is he not your father, your creator? He has made you and established you.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

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

1 Thessalonians 5:18

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

1 Timothy 1:13

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,

Titus 2:8

and a sound message that cannot be criticized, so that any opponent will be at a loss, because he has nothing evil to say about us.

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

1 Peter 2:12

and maintain good conduct among the non-Christians, so that though they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.

1 Peter 3:16

Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you.

1 Peter 3:17

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil.

1 Peter 4:2

in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.

2 Peter 2:12

But these men, like irrational animals – creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed – do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,

Jude 1:10

But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.