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

that he henceforward should live as much time as remaineth in the flesh, not after the lusts of men: but after the will of God.

not with service in the eyesight, as men-pleasers: but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart

For this is the will of God, even that ye should be holy, and that ye should abstain from fornication,

In all things give thanks. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

With

and see that ye have honest conversation among the gentiles, that they which backbite you as evil doers, may see your good works and praise God in the day of visitation.

that the poor may have hope, and that the mouth of the oppressor may be stopped.

The righteous will consider this and rejoice; the mouth of all wickedness shall be stopped.

and with the wholesome word which cannot be rebuked, that he which withstandeth may be ashamed, having no thing in you that he may dispraise.

The ignorance

when before I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a tyrant. But I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly, through unbelief:

But these, as brute beasts, naturally made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of that they know not, and shall perish through their own destruction,

But these speak evil of those things which they know not. In those things which they know naturally - as beasts which are without reason - they corrupt themselves.

Foolish

"Dost thou so reward the LORD? O foolish nation and unwise. Is not he thy father and thine owner? Hath he not made thee and ordained thee?

But Job said unto her, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman. Seeing we have received prosperity at the hand of God, wherefore should we not be content with adversity also?" In all these things, did not Job sin with his lips.

Such as be foolish shall not stand in thy sight, for thou hatest all them that work vanity.

Forsake ignorance, and ye shall live: and see that ye go in the way of understanding."

"Nevertheless this shall come upon them because my people is become foolish, and hath utterly no understanding. They are the children of foolishness, and without any discretion. To do evil, they have wit enough: but to do well, they have no wisdom."

And whosoever heareth of me these sayings, and doeth them not the same, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

inasmuch as when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful: but waxed full of vanities in their imaginations. And their foolish hearts were blinded.

O foolish Galatians: who hath bewitched you, that ye should not believe the truth, to whom Jesus Christ was described before the eyes, and among you crucified?

For we ourselves also were in times past, unwise, disobedient, deceived, in danger to lusts, and to divers manners of voluptuousness, living in maliciousness and envy, full of hate, hating one another.

General references

But he said unto him, "Thou knowest what service I have done thee, and in what taking thy cattle have been under me:

And they answered Joshua, saying, "All that thou biddest us, we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.