1 Peter 2:15

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

For God's will is this--that you should silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing what is right.

Cross References

Matthew 25:2

Five of them were foolish, and five were prudent.

Matthew 7:26

And every one that listens to this teaching of mine and does not act upon it may be compared to a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

Romans 1:21

Because, although they learned to know God, yet they did not offer him as God either praise or thanksgiving. Their speculations about him proved futile, and their undiscerning minds were darkened.

Galatians 3:1

Foolish Galatians! Who has been fascinating you--you before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was depicted upon the cross?

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is God's purpose--that you should be pure; abstaining from all immorality;

1 Thessalonians 5:18

Under all circumstances give thanks to God. For this is his will for you as made known in Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 1:13

though I once used to blaspheme, and to persecute, and to insult. Yet mercy was shown me, because I acted in ignorance, while still an unbeliever;

Titus 2:8

let the instruction that you give be sound and above reproach, so that the enemy may be ashamed when he fails to find anything bad to say about us.

Titus 3:3

There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.

1 Peter 2:12

Let your daily life among the Gentiles be so upright, that, whenever they malign you as evil-doers, they may learn, as they watch, from the uprightness of your conduct, to praise God 'at the time when he shall visit them.'

1 Peter 3:16

and keeping your consciences clear, so that, whenever you are maligned, those who vilify your good and Christian conduct may be put to shame.

1 Peter 3:17

It is better that you should suffer, if that should be God's will, for doing right, than for doing wrong.

1 Peter 4:2

and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.

2 Peter 2:12

These men, however, like animals without reason, intended by nature to be caught and killed--these men, I say, malign those of whom they know nothing, and will assuredly perish through their own corruption,

Jude 1:10

But these men malign whatever they do not understand; while they use such things as they know by instinct (like the animals that have no reason) for their own corruption.