1 Peter 2:15
Because it is God's pleasure that foolish and narrow-minded men may be put to shame by your good behaviour:
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In The King James Version
For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
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Cross References
Job 2:10And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.
Psalms 5:5\5:4\For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.
Proverbs 9:6Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.
Matthew 7:26And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand;
Romans 1:21Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.
Ephesians 6:6Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart;
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 2:14-25
Submission to Magistrates; Various Exhortations; Christ's Example as a Sufferer. ( a. d. 66.) 13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. 15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: 16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the… Read the whole commentary →