1 Peter 2:15
For so is the pleasure of God, that by your good deeds ye may stop the mouth of the foolish, who know not God:
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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
Cross References
Matthew 7:26And every one that heareth these my discourses, and doeth them not, will be like a foolish man that built his house upon sand.
Romans 1:21because they knew God, and did not glorify him and give thanks to him as God, but became vain in their imaginings, and their unwise heart was darkened.
Ephesians 6:6Not in the sight of the eye, as if ye were pleasing men; but as the servants of the Messiah, who are doing 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 →