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 the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
• Titus 2:8Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
• 1 Pet 2:12Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
• Matt 7:26And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
• 1 Th 5:18In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
• 1 Th 4:3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
• Jer 4:22For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
• Rom 1:21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
• Job 2:10But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
• Eph 6:6–7Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
• 2 Pet 2:12But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
• Prov 9:6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
• Jude 1:10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
• 1 Tim 1:13Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• Ps 107:42The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
• 1 Pet 4:2That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
• Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Gal 3:1O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
• Ps 5:5The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
• Matt 25:2And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
• Job 5:16So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
• Deut 32:6Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?

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