As obedient children, do not pattern your lives after the evil desires you formerly had when you were ignorant,

and to governors as deputed by him for the punishment of wrongdoers and the encouragement of honest people ??15 for it is the will of God that by your honest lives you should silence the ignorant charges of foolish persons.

For it is the will of God that by well-doing you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.