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1 Peter 2:15
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1 Peter 2:15
15For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
15For so is the will of God, that with well doing yee may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Peter 2:15
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
In a good, right, or healthy manner or condition; also a deep source of water, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To place, set, lay, appoint, bring into a condition, or cause to be, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The absence of speech or sound; holding one's peace.
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Lack of knowledge or understanding.
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Lacking wisdom or sound judgment; acting without proper regard for truth or what is right.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study17For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
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Open the full verse study8Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
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Open the full verse study12Having 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.
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Open the full verse study18In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
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Open the full verse study26And 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:
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Open the full verse study3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
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Open the full verse study22For 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.
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Open the full verse study6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
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Open the full verse study12But 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;
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Open the full verse study6Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
7With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
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Open the full verse study10But 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.
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Open the full verse study21Because 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.
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Open the full verse study2That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
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Open the full verse study13Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
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Open the full verse study10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
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Open the full verse study42The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
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Open the full verse study3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
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Open the full verse study1O 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?
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Open the full verse study2And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
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Open the full verse study5The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
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Open the full verse study16So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
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Open the full verse study6Do 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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