1 Peter 2:15

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1 Peter 2:15

1 Peter 2:12

Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds.

Matthew 7:26

And everyone who listens to these words of mine and does not act upon them will be like a stupid man who built his house on sand.

Matthew 25:2

Five of them were stupid and five were sensible.

Romans 1:21

Though they knew God, they have not glorified him as God nor given thanks to him; they have turned to futile speculations till their ignorant minds grew dark.

Galatians 3:1

O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you ??you who had Jesus Christ the crucified placarded before your very eyes?

Ephesians 6:6-7

instead of merely working when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, do God's will from the heart like servants of Christ,

1 Thessalonians 4:3

It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from sexual vice,

1 Thessalonians 5:18

thank God for everything ??such is his will for you in Christ Jesus;

1 Timothy 1:13

though I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a wanton aggressor. I obtained mercy because in my unbelief I had acted out of ignorance;

Titus 2:8

let your words be sound and such that no exception can be taken to them, so that the opposite side may be confounded by finding nothing that they can say to our discredit.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

1 Peter 3:17

For it is better to suffer for doing right (if that should be the will of God) than for doing wrong.

1 Peter 4:2

nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.

But those people! ??like irrational animals, creatures of mere instinct, born for capture and corruption, they scoff at what they are ignorant of; and like animals they will suffer corruption and ruin,

Jude 1:10

But these people scoff at anything they do not understand; and whatever they do understand, like irrational animals, by mere instinct, that proves their ruin.

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Summary

1 Peter 2:15

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

So

With

1 Peter 2:12

Titus 2:8

The ignorance

1 Timothy 1:13

2 Peter 2:12

Jude 1:10

Foolish

Titus 3:3

Bible References

So

nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.

instead of merely working when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, do God's will from the heart like servants of Christ,

It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from sexual vice,

thank God for everything ??such is his will for you in Christ Jesus;

With

Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds.

let your words be sound and such that no exception can be taken to them, so that the opposite side may be confounded by finding nothing that they can say to our discredit.

The ignorance

though I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a wanton aggressor. I obtained mercy because in my unbelief I had acted out of ignorance;

But these people scoff at anything they do not understand; and whatever they do understand, like irrational animals, by mere instinct, that proves their ruin.

Foolish

And everyone who listens to these words of mine and does not act upon them will be like a stupid man who built his house on sand.

Five of them were stupid and five were sensible.

Though they knew God, they have not glorified him as God nor given thanks to him; they have turned to futile speculations till their ignorant minds grew dark.

O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you ??you who had Jesus Christ the crucified placarded before your very eyes?

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.