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, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.
• Titus 2:8and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.
• 1 Pet 2:12having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
• Matt 7:26Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.
• 1 Th 5:18In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
• 1 Th 4:3For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
• Jer 4:22“For my people are foolish, they don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”
• Rom 1:21Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
• Job 2:10But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.
• Eph 6:6–7not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
• 2 Pet 2:12But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
• Prov 9:6Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”
• Jude 1:10But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.
• 1 Tim 1:13although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• Ps 107:42The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.
• 1 Pet 4:2that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
• Titus 3:3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Gal 3:1Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
• Ps 5:5The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.
• Matt 25:2Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
• Job 5:16So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
• Deut 32:6Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

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