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

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

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

not in the way of eye-service, 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 should abstain from sexual immorality;

give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

With

Maintain good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in case they speak against you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may 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, I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;

But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed, reviling in matters of which they are ignorant, will be destroyed in the same destruction with them,

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

Foolish

And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

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

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another.