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

that he may no longer live the remaining time in carnality according to the lusts of men, but in the will of God.

not with eyeservice, as menpleasers, but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the soul;

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

in every thing give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus towards you.

With

having your deportment beautiful among the Gentiles: in order that in whatsoever they calumniate you as evil doers, seeing from your beautiful works, they may glorify God in the day of his visitation.

the sound word, irrefutable, in order that the adversary may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning us.

The ignorance

being antecedently a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and an insulter: but I obtained mercy, because I did it in unbelief being ignorant;

But these, like irrational animals having been born naturally for capture and destruction, blaspheming those things in which they are ignorant; in their own corruption they will indeed corrupt themselves;

But these blaspheme so many things as they know not: and so many things as they understand naturally, like irrational animals, in these they are corrupted.

Foolish

And every one hearing these words of mine, and doing them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.

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

because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were they thankful; but they became vain in their reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened.

O foolish Galatians, who has been bewitching you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was set forth having been crucified?

For when we also were without understanding, being disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in sin and envy, hateful, hating one another;