1 Peter 2:15
For so is the will of God, that by doing well you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
Douay-Rheims 1899
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:
In Context
14Or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of the good:
16As free, and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.
Cross References
Job 2:10And he said to her: Thou hast; spoken like one of the foolish women: if we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.
Psalms 5:5In the morning I will stand before thee, and will see: because thou art not a God that willest iniquity.
Proverbs 9:6Forsake childishness, and live, and walk by the ways of prudence.
Matthew 7:26And every one that heareth these my words, and doth them not, shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand,
Romans 1:21Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God, or given thanks; but became vain in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Ephesians 6:6Not serving to the eye, as it were pleasing men, but, as the servants of Christ doing the will 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 →