1 Peter 2:15 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁵ So when you do good, you stop foolish people from saying stupid things about you. This is what God wants.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ 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

¹⁵ 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)

¹⁵ For so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

Common English Bible

¹⁵ 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

¹⁵ 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

¹⁵ For so is the will of God, that by doing well you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

1 Peter 2:15 Tagairtí Cros

Job 2:10

Job answered his wife, “You talk like a foolish woman! God gives us good things, and we accept them. So we should also accept trouble \{and not complain\}.” All these things happened. But Job did not sin. He did not speak against God.

Job 5:16

So poor people have hope.\par God destroys bad people\par who are not fair.\par

Psalm 107:42

Good people see this,\par and they are happy.\par But wicked people see this,\par and they don’t know what to say.\par

Psalm 5:5

Fools {\cf2\super [24]} can’t come near you.\par You hate {\cf2\super [25]} people who do evil.\par

Proverbs 9:6

Leave your old, foolish ways, and you will have life. Follow the way of understanding.”

Jeremiah 4:22

\{God said,\} “My people are foolish.\par They don’t know me.\par They are stupid children.\par They don’t understand.\par They are skillful at doing evil,\par but they don’t know how to do good.”\par

Matthew 25:2

Five of the girls were foolish. And five of the girls were wise.

Matthew 7:26

But the person that hears the things I teach and does not obey those things is like a foolish man. The foolish man built his house on sand.

Romans 1:21

People knew God. But they did not give glory to God, and they did not thank him. Their ideas were all useless. There was not one good thought left in their foolish minds.

Galatians 3:1

You people in Galatia were told very clearly about the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. But you were very foolish. You let someone trick you.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is that the way you should pay back the Lord {for all that he did for you? No!} You are stupid, foolish people. The Lord is your Father. He made you. He is your Creator. He supports you.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

God wants you to be holy. {\cf2\super [12]} He wants you to stay away from sexual sins.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

Give thanks \{to God\} at all times. That is what God wants for you in Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 1:13

In the past I spoke against Christ and persecuted him and did things to hurt him. But God gave me mercy because I did not know what I was doing. I did those things when I did not believe.

Titus 2:8

And your teaching should be clearly right so that you cannot be criticized. Then any person who is against you will be ashamed because he has nothing bad that he can say against us.

Titus 3:3

Grace (kindness) and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:12

People who don’t believe are living all around you. Those people may say that you are doing wrong. So live good lives. Then they will see the good things you do, and they will give glory to God on that day when he comes.

1 Peter 3:16

But answer those people in a gentle way with respect. Always be able to feel that you are doing right. When you do that, the people who say bad things about you will be made ashamed. They say these bad things about the good way you live in Christ. They will be made ashamed for the bad things they said about you.

1 Peter 3:17

It is better to suffer for doing good than for doing wrong. Yes, it is better if that is what God wants.

1 Peter 4:2

\{Strengthen yourselves\} so that you will live your lives here on earth doing what God wants, not doing the evil things that people want.

2 Peter 2:12

But these false teachers speak evil against things they don’t understand. These false teachers are like animals that do things without really thinking—like wild animals that are born to be caught and killed. And, like wild animals, these false teachers will be destroyed.