Cross references

1 Peter 2:15

For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.

1 Peter 2:15 BSB

1 Peter 2:15 has 22 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 20 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Titus 2:8 (17 votes) and 1 Peter 3:17 (17 votes). 30 other verses point back to it. It links with 23 other books, from Genesis 30 to Jude 1.

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Which verses does 1 Peter 2:15 point to?

The 20 strongest of 22, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Titus 2:817 votes

    and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

  2. 1 Peter 3:1717 votes

    For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

  3. 1 Peter 2:1214 votes

    Conduct 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.

  4. Matthew 7:2611 votes

    But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

  5. Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

  6. For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;

  7. Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”

  8. “For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”

  9. Job 2:107 votes

    “You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

  10. For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

  11. I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.

  12. Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.

  13. Jude 1:106 votes
  14. Titus 3:35 votes

    For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

  15. Psalm 5:54 votes

Which verses point to 1 Peter 2:15?

The 10 strongest of 30.