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 ye no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh to the desires of men, but to the will of God.

not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul,

For this is the will of God??ven your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

In everything give thanks; for this is God's will in Christ Jesus respecting you.

With

having your conduct seemly among the gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may, from your good works which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

sound speech not to be condemned; that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say concerning us.

The ignorance

though formerly I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious; but I obtained mercy, because I, being ignorant, did it in unbelief;

But these, as irrational creatures, born naturally for capture and destruction, railing in matters of which they are ignorant, shall in their destruction be also destroyed,

But these rail at such things as they know not; and what they understand naturally, as the irrational animals, in these things they are corrupted.

Foolish

"And every one who hears these words of Mine, and does them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who, indeed, built his house upon the sand:

And five of them were foolish, and five wise;

because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor did they give thanks; but they became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

O foolish Galatians! Who bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?

For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving manifold desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.