1 Peter 2:15
New Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:"
Word-by-Word Analysis
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
יָטַב
yâṭab
to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
דָּמַם
dâmam
to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish
שְׁגָגָה
shᵉgâgâh
a mistake or inadvertent transgression
כְּסִיל
kᵉçîyl
properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly
אֱנוֹשׁ
ʼĕnôwsh
a man in general (singly or collectively)
Key Terms in This Verse
דָּמַם dâmam
to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish
Study H1826 →יָטַב yâṭab
to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)
Study H3190 →נָתַן nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
Study H5414 →אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a supe...
Study H430 →Cross References
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
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.
And 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:
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
For 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.
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Because 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.
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;
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.
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.
The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
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.
Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
O 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?
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
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?
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