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

in order to live the remaining time in flesh, no longer by lusts of men, but by the will of God.

Not according to eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul,

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,

In everything express thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

With

Having your behavior good among the Gentiles, so that, upon which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, from having observed your good works.

So a poor man has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.

The upright shall see it, and be glad. And all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

sound speech, irreproachable, so that the man of opposition may be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

The ignorance

the man who was formerly blasphemous, and a persecutor, and an aggressor. But I obtained mercy because I did it being ignorant in unbelief.

But these men, like irrational beasts of nature, having been born for capture and destruction, speaking evil at which things they do not understand, will be destroyed in their corruption,

But these men indeed revile whatever they have not seen. But whatever they understand naturally, as the irrational beasts, in these things they are corrupted.

Foolish

Do ye thus requite LORD, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father who has bought thee? He has made thee, and established thee.

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

The arrogant shall not stand in thy sight. Thou hate all workers of iniquity.

Forsake ye simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of understanding.

And every man who hears these sayings of mine, and does not do them, will be compared to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand.

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

Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.

O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was earlier described among you, crucified?

For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, being led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, hateful, hating each other.

General references

And he said to him, Thou know how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me.

And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou have commanded us we will do, and wherever thou send us we will go.