For it is God's will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.
Cross References
1 Peter 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.
1 Peter 3:16keeping a clear conscience, so that those who slander you may be put to shame by your good behavior in Christ.
1 Peter 3:17For it is better, if it is God's will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
Treasury of Scripture
For so is the will of God, that with well doing you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
so.
1 Peter 4:2
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
Ephesians 6:6,7
Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; …
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
with.
1 Peter 2:12
Having 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.
Job 5:16
So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Psalm 107:42
The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
the ignorance.
1 Timothy 1:13
Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
2 Peter 2:12
But 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;
Jude 1:10
But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
foolish.
Deuteronomy 32:6
Do 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?
Job 2:10
But 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.
Psalm 5:5
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
