1 Peter 2:15
For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.
Majority Standard Bible
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 those sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right.
16Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
Cross References
Job 2:10“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
Psalms 5:5The boastful cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all workers of iniquity.
Proverbs 9:6Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
Matthew 7:26But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
Romans 1:21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
Ephesians 6:6And do this not only to please them while they are watching, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from your 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 →