‘You speak as a foolish woman speaks,’ he told her. ‘Should we accept only good from God and not adversity? ’ Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.
1 Peter 2:15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For it is God’s will that you silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For it is God's will and intention that by doing right [your good and honest lives] should silence (muzzle, gag) the ignorant charges and ill-informed criticisms of foolish persons. American Standard Version (1901) For so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: Common English Bible Submit to them because it’s God’s will that by doing good you will silence the ignorant talk of foolish people. Catholic Public Domain Version For such is the will of God, that by doing good you may bring about the silence of imprudent and ignorant men, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For so is the will of God, that by doing well you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: |
‘You speak as a foolish woman speaks,’ he told her. ‘Should we accept only good from God and not adversity? ’ Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.
Leave inexperience behind, and you will live; pursue the way of understanding.
‘For my people are fools; they do not know me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing what is evil, but they do not know how to do what is good.’
But everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
For though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became worthless, and their senseless hearts were darkened.
You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?
Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Isn’t he your Father and Creator? , Didn’t he make you and sustain you?
For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you keep away from sexual immorality,
give thanks in everything; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief,
Your message is to be sound beyond reproach, so that any opponent will be ashamed, because he doesn’t have anything bad to say about us.
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.
Conduct yourselves honourably among the Gentiles, so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits.
Yet do this with gentleness and reverence, keeping a clear conscience, so that when you are accused, those who disparage your good conduct in Christ will be put to shame.
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.
in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.
But these people, like irrational animals #– #creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed #– #slander what they do not understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed.
But these people blaspheme anything they do not understand. And what they do understand by instinct #– #like irrational animals #– #by these things they are destroyed.