1 Peter 2:15

It is God's will that by doing good, believers silence the ignorant accusations of foolish people. Upright living is the best answer to slander.

Cross-references · 22

• 1 Pet 3:17For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
• Titus 2:8and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.
• 1 Pet 2:12Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.
• Matt 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.
• 1 Th 5:18Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Th 4:3For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
• Jer 4:22“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
• Rom 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.
• 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.
• Eph 6:6–7And do this not only to please them while they are watching, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.
• 2 Pet 2:12These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.
• Prov 9:6Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
• Jude 1:10These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.
• 1 Tim 1:13I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
• Ps 107:42The upright see and rejoice, and all iniquity shuts its mouth.
• 1 Pet 4:2Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
• Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
• Gal 3:1O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
• Ps 5:5The boastful cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all workers of iniquity.
• Matt 25:2Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
• Job 5:16So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
• Deut 32:6Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

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