1 Peter 2:15

The Text-Critical English New Testament

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

Cross References

Matthew 25:2

Five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

Matthew 7:26

But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be compared to a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

Romans 1:21

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

Galatians 3:1

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you to keep you from obeying the truth? In your presence, before your very eyes, Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

It is God's will that you be sanctified, that you abstain from fornication,

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, persecutor, and insolent man. But I received mercy because I had ignorantly acted in unbelief,

Titus 2:8

and sound speech that is above reproach, so that any opponent may be put to shame because he has nothing bad to say about us.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, and enslaved to various lusts and pleasures. Living in wickedness and envy, we were loathsome and hated one another.

1 Peter 2:12

keeping your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God on the day of his visitation.

1 Peter 3:16

keeping a clear conscience, so that, when those who revile your good conduct in Christ speak against you as evildoers, they may be put to shame.

1 Peter 3:17

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

1 Peter 4:2

so as to live his remaining time in the flesh no longer for the evil desires of men, but for the will of God.

2 Peter 2:12

But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like irrational beasts, creatures of instinct born for capture and destruction, and in the destruction of those beasts they will be destroyed,

Jude 1:10

Yet these men slander whatever they do not understand, and they are corrupted by what they, like irrational beasts, instinctively comprehend.