1 Peter 2:15

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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

The ignorance

1 Timothy 1:13

2 Peter 2:12

Jude 1:10

Foolish

General references

Genesis 30:29

Joshua 1:16

Bible References

So

so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;

in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

With

Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

“So the helpless has hope,
And unrighteousness must shut its mouth.

The upright see it and are glad;
But all unrighteousness shuts its mouth.

sound in speech which is beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.

The ignorance

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;

But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,

But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.

Foolish

“Do you thus repay the Lord,

O foolish and unwise people?

Is not He your Father who has bought you?

He has made you and established you.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

The boastful shall not stand before Your eyes;
You hate all who do iniquity.

“Forsake your folly and live,
And proceed in the way of understanding.”

“For My people are foolish,
They know Me not;
They are stupid children
And have no understanding.
They are shrewd to do evil,
But to do good they do not know.”

Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

Five of them were foolish, and five were prudent.

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

General references

But he said to him, “You yourself know how I have served you and how your cattle have fared with me.

They answered Joshua, saying, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.