1 Peter 2:15
For God’s will is this – that you should silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing what is right.
Open English Bible (US)
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
14and to governors as sent by him to punish evildoers and to commend those who do right.
Cross References
Psalms 5:5No braggarts can stand in your presence, you hate all workers of wrong.
Matthew 7:26Everyone who listens to this teaching of mine and does not act on it may be compared to a foolish person, who built their house on the sand.
Romans 1:21because, although they learned to know God, yet they did not offer him as God either praise or thanksgiving. Their speculations about him proved futile, and their undiscerning minds were darkened.
Ephesians 6:6not only when their eyes are on you, as if you had merely to please people, but as slaves of Christ, who are trying to carry out the will of God.
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 →