1 Peter 2:15 - 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:

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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:

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁵ For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.

1 Peter 2:15 Tagairtí Cros

Job 2:10

But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

Job 5:16

So the poor hath hope, And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

Psalm 107:42

The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: And all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

Psalm 5:5

The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: Thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

Proverbs 9:6

Forsake the foolish, and live; And go in the way of understanding.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Matthew 25:2

And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

Matthew 7:26

And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

Romans 1:21

because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Galatians 3:1

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

Deuteronomy 32:6

Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? Hath he not made thee, and established thee?

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

1 Thessalonians 5:18

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

1 Timothy 1:13

who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

Titus 2:8

sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

1 Peter 2:12

having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 Peter 3:16

having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

1 Peter 3:17

For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

1 Peter 4:2

that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

2 Peter 2:12

But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

Jude 1:10

But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.