1 Peter 2:15

A Call To Good Works

¹⁴ Or unto governors, as, through him, sent - for vengeance on evil-doers, but praise to such as do good; ¹⁵ Because, so, is the will of God, - by doing good, to be putting to silence, the ignorance of heedless men: ¹⁶ As free, yet, not as a cloak of vice, holding your freedom, but, as God's servants.

Foolish Men

In Me

Put to Shame

Will of God

1 Peter 2:12

Having, your behaviour among the nations, honourable, - in order that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may, owing to the honourable works they are permitted to behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Job 2:10

And he said unto her, As one of the base women speaketh, speakest thou? Blessing, shall we accept from God, and, misfortune, shall we not accept? In all this, Job sinned not with his lips.

Psalm 107:42

The upright seeth and is glad, And, all perverseness, hath closed her mouth.

Proverbs 9:6

Forsake the simple ones, and live, and advance in the way of understanding.

Jeremiah 4:22

Surely, perverse, is my people Me, have they not known, Foolish sons, they are, Yea without understanding, they are: Wise, they are to commit wickedness, But how to do well, they know not!

Matthew 7:26

And every one who heareth these my words, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand;

Matthew 25:2

Now, five of them, were foolish, and, five, prudent.

Romans 1:21

Inasmuch as, having come to know God, not, as God, did they glorify him, or give him thanks, but were made fruitless in their reasonings, and darkened was their undiscerning heart,

Galatians 3:1

O thoughtless Galatians! who hath bewitched you, - before whose very eyes, Jesus Christ, was openly set forth as a crucified one?

Ephesians 6:6-7

Not by way of eye-service as man-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God, from the soul,

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For, this, is a thing willed of God, your sanctification, - that ye should abstain from unchastity,

1 Thessalonians 5:18

In everything, give thanks, - for, this, is a thing willed of God, in Christ Jesus, towards you:

1 Timothy 1:13

Though, formerly, a defamer, and persecutor, and insulter; nevertheless mercy was shown me, because, without knowledge, I acted, in unbelief:

Titus 2:8

healthful discourse that cannot be condemned, in order that, he that is of the contrary part, may relent, having nothing to say concerning us that is disparaging:

Titus 3:3

For, even we, used, at one time, to be - thoughtless, unyielding, deceived, in servitude unto manifold covetings and pleasures, in malice and envy, leading on, detestable, hating one another.

1 Peter 3:17

For it is, better, as well-doers, if it should please the pleasure of God, to be suffering, than, as evil-doers:

1 Peter 4:2

To the end that, no longer, in men's covetings, but in God's will, ye may live, the still remaining time.

2 Peter 2:12

These, however, as unreasoning creatures that have been bred as being, by nature, for capture and destruction, in the things they are ignorant of, uttering defamation, in their spoiling, shall also be made a spoil, -

Jude 1:10

But, these, whatsoever things, indeed, they know not, they defame; but, whatsoever things, naturally, like the irrational creatures, they well understand, by these, are they, bringing themselves to ruin.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is it Yahweh, ye thus requite, O impious people and unwise? Is not, he, thy father who begat thee? He, that made thee and established thee?

Job 5:16

Thus to the poor hath come hope, and, perversity, hath shut her mouth.

Psalm 5:5

Boasters, shall not station themselves, before thine eyes, - Thou hatest all workers of iniquity: