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 that for the future he does not pass the rest of this life in gratifying his sensual passions, but in conformity to the divine precepts.

not doing your work meerly out of regard to their presence or their pleasure, but as the servants of Christ, in hearty obedience to the will of God:

and such is the will of God, that you should be holy, and avoid licentiousness;

be thankful to God for every thing, for so christians are oblig'd to be.

With

souls. Let your behaviour among the Gentiles be virtuous, that instead of inveighing against you as vicious, they may observe your honest behaviour,

gravity; let your doctrine be sound and inoffensive, that your opponents may be ashamed, and have nothing that is ill to say of us.

The ignorance

who was before a blasphemer, and a violent persecutor; but I obtained mercy, because I acted thro' ignorance in incrudelity.

But as for these, they have no more reason than brute beasts that are naturally made for hunting, and slaughter: so these who calumniate what they do not understand, shall receive the reward of their iniquity by perishing in their own corruption.

As for these, they inveigh against what they do not understand: and abuse those natural instincts which regulate brute animals.

Foolish

but every one that heareth these instructions of mine, and practiseth them not, shall be compared to a fool who built his house upon the sand:

five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

because when they knew God, they did not with gratitude glorify him as God, but their reasoning became extravagance, and their minds, void of judgment, were involv'd in darkness.

O foolish Galatians, who hath deluded you, you that have had the crucifixion of Jesus Christ represented to your view?

for even we ourselves were once inconsiderate, disobedient, deluded, addicted to variety of passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, the deserving objects of mutual hatred.