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 should no longer live the rest of his time in the flesh according to the lusts of men, but after the will of God.

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

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification: that ye should abstain from fornication,

In every circumstance be thankful; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

With

having a good conversation among the Gentiles; that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may glorify God in the day of their visitation, on account of the good works which they behold in you.

that he who opposeth it may be ashamed, having no evil to say of you.

The ignorance

who before was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and an oppressor. But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief: and the grace of our Lord superabounded,

But these men, like brute beasts naturally produced to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil of things which they do not understand, shall perish by their own corruption; receiving the reward of their unrighteousness:

But these men speak evil of what they know not: and what they know naturally, as brute animals, in these things they are corrupt.

Foolish

And whoever heareth these words of mine, and performeth them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand:

and five were foolish.

so that they are inexcusable; because having thus known God they glorified Him not as God, neither were they thankful; but were infatuated by their own reasonings, and their heart being void of understanding was darkened.

O senseless Galatians, who hath so bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth? you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth as crucified.

For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, going astray, enslaved to various disorderly appetites and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.