Verse 15. _FOR SO IS THE WILL OF GOD_] God, as their supreme governor, shows them that it is his will that they should act uprightly and obediently at all times, and thus confound the ignorance of fo...
FOR SO IS THE WILL OF GOD - That is, it is in accordance with the divine will that in this way you should put them to silence. THAT WITH WELL DOING - By a life of uprightness and benevolence. YE MAY...
III. CHRIST THE PATTERN FOR HIS SAINTS CHAPTER 2:11-3:9 _ 1. Abstinence and submission (1 Peter 2:11)_ 2. Christ the pattern for those who suffer (1 Peter 2:18) 3. Glorifying Christ in the marriage...
1 Peter 2:13. As Jesus had given them an example so were they to live in all dutiful obedience to human authority from the emperor to his representatives, since they constituted the bulwarks of the St...
WILL. App-102. WELL DOING. Greek. _agathopoieo._ See Acts 14:17. PUT TO SILENCE. Same as "muzzle", 1 Corinthians 9:9. IGNORANCE. Greek. _agno_ sia. See 1 Corinthians 15:
_For so is the will of God_ Better, FOR THUS IT IS THE WILL OF GOD. This was to be the chief, if not the only, _apologia_of Christians to the charges brought against them. They were accused of being e...
ΟὝΤΩΣ may refer to the words which follow, viz. silencing ignorance by well-doing. But οὕτως is regularly used retrospectively to sum up some preceding statement. So here St Peter means that by employ...
B. SOCIAL DUTIES. 1 Peter 2:13 to 1 Peter 3:12 13 This warfare against heathen principles of living does not mean the subversion of the necessary bonds of society. Rather it deepens and intensifies...
ΆΓΑΘΟΠΟΙΟΎΝΤΑΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΆΓΑΘΟΠΟΙΈΩ (G17) делать добро, поступать правильно. Part, дальше определяет волю Бога и указывает на образ действия или средство: "ведя себя как хорошие подданные...
DISCOURSE: 2396 SUBJECTION TO CIVIL GOVERNMENT 1 Peter 2:13. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unto them tha...
YE MAY PUT TO SILENCE— _Ye may bridle-in._ The original φιμουν, is used for putting on a _muzzle,_ as the ancients used to do upon _oxen, horses,_ and _mules,_ as well as upon dogs. Fierce calumniator...
IV. DUTIES TOWARD OTHERS 2:133:12 _1. Toward Civil Government 2:13-17_ 1 Peter 2:13-14 Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king as supreme; or unto governors, as...
For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: Ground of directing them to submit themselves (1 Peter 2:13). PUT TO SILENCE, [ fimoun (G5392)]...
VERSE 15. FOR SO IS THE WILL OF GOD. You will put to silence the calumny that because of your faith you were law-breakers. Their calumny was in consequence of their ignorance, and also their wickedne...
24 Isa_40:6-8. 4 Our Lord, speaking to the chief priests and elders, told them that the kingdom of God would be taken from them and given to a nation bringing forth its fruits, in proof of which He a...
2:15 men; (n-19) 'Senseless men' has the article here, as showing that it is not 'some men who are foolish,' but that men (not Christians) are so, are known in that character. It is the character of a...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 V1 Therefore stop all evil behaviour. Do not cheat people. Do not pretend to be better than you are. Do not be jealous. Stop saying bad th...
Romans 13:1-2 says that all authority comes from God. So, if Christians do not obey their leaders, they are not obeying God. When Peter and Paul were writing their letters, there was a bad emperor (ru...
FOR SO IS THE WILL OF GOD. — This refers to the command contained in the last two verses, which then is further explained by the clause which follows, “that with well-doing.” See a very similar constr...
CHAPTER 5 CHRISTIAN BROTHERHOOD: ITS CHARACTER AND DUTIES 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 2:1 THAT holy lives have been lived in solitude none would venture to dispute, and that devout Christians have found...
CHAPTER 7 CHRISTIANS AS PILGRIMS IN THE WORLD 1 Peter 2:11 THE Apostle opens his exhortations with a word eminently Christian: "Beloved." It is a word whose history makes us alive to and thankful fo...
The duty of the Christian towards the State; compare Romans 13:1-7. πάσῃ ἀνθρωπίνῃ κτίσει, _every human institution_, including rulers (14), masters (18), and husbands (1 Peter 3:1). κτίζειν is used o...
THE CHRISTIAN PILGRIM'S WALK 1 Peter 2:11 Strong desires must be kept under the stronger hand of the Christian soul-not extirpated but turned into right directions as God's providence points the way....
In order to obey the injunctions, those to whom Peter writes are urged to put away all such things as are contrary to the spirit of love. In order to do this they will long for the sustenance of the W...
THE CHRISTIAN AND GOVERNMENT Peter had received some personalized instruction from the Lord as to his attitude toward governments and may have heard what Christ told Pilate (Matthew 17:24-27; John 19:...
(19) For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: (19) He declares the first argument more amply, showing that Christian liberty does among all t...
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; (12) Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak again...
The epistles of Peter are addressed to the elect Jews of his day, believing of course on the Lord Jesus, and scattered throughout a considerable portion of Asia Minor. The apostle takes particular car...
_FOOLISH MEN SILENCED_ ‘For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.’ 1 Peter 2:15 Christ’s disciples need not expect to fare better than thei...
15_For so is the will of God _He returns to his former doctrine, lest an occasion should be given to the unbelieving to speak evil, though he expresses less than what he had said before; for he says o...
Thus cleansed therefore and born of the word, they were to put off all fraud, hypocrisy, envy, slander; and, as new-born babes, to seek for this milk of the understanding, in order to grow thereby (fo...
FOR SO IS THE WILL OF GOD,.... Which refers not so much to what goes before; though it is a truth, that it is the will of God that men should be subject to magistrates, and that magistrates should enc...
For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: Ver. 15. _Ye may put to silence_] Gr. φιμουν, muzzle, or halter up, button up their mouths, as we s...
_Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man_ Greek, παση ανθρωπινη κτισει, _to every human constitution_ of government, under which you are placed by Divine Providence, and which is formed instrument...
PUT TO SILENCE; a good life best confounds slanderers....
FOR SO IS THE WILL OF GOD, THAT WITH WELL DOING YE MAY PUT TO SILENCE THE IGNORANCE OF FOOLISH MEN;...
Obedience to the constituted authorities:...
Ch.2: 1 Timothy 6 Since the Word of God is the solid foundation of all, eternal blessing for us, it surely follows that we should gladly lay aside all that is contrary to It. Indeed, these evils liste...
_ 1 Peter 2:15 ‘For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men.'_ ‘FOR SUCH IS THE WILL OF GOD' -Peter isn't giving his own opinion. The Apostles knew wha...
13-17 A Christian conversation must be honest; which it cannot be, if there is not a just and careful discharge of all relative duties: the apostle here treats of these distinctly. Regard to those du...
FOR SO IS THE WILL OF GOD; his command. THAT WITH WELL-DOING; all manner of offices of humanity, whereof obedience to magistrates is a principal one. YE MAY PUT TO SILENCE; Greek, muzzle, stop the mou...
1 Peter 2:15 For G3754 this G3779 is G2076 (G5748) will G2307 God G2316 good G15 (G5723) silence...
THEY ARE TO BE OBEDIENT TO THE AUTHORITIES (1 PETER 2:13). He emphasises here that being sojourners does not mean that Christians are rebels or that they deny their responsibilities towards authority....
‘For so is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men,' And one good reason for behaving in this way is because by doing what is seen to be right evil t...
The relative duties of Christians are now taken up as essentially concerned in that self-restraint and seemliness of conduct which was to be the best refutation of mischievous misrepresentation, and t...
1 Peter 2:15. FOR SO IS THE WILL OF GOD, _i.e_ the will of God is to _the following effect_ (cf. Matthew 1:18, where the same word is rendered ‘on this wise ‘), namely, THAT BY WELL DOING YE SILENCE T...
BY WELL-DOING (αγαθοποιουντας). Present active participle of αγαθοποιεω, only in LXX and N.T. (Mark 3:4). In accusative case agreeing with υμας understood, accusative of general reference with φιμοι...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: Ha...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,-_ This is what we are to lay aside, to put away from us, to banish altogether. The...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,_ Putting these evil things right away from you, having nothing further to do with...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: if...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If...
CONTENTS: Exhortation to holiness and growth in view of Christ's great sacrifice. Christ's vicarious sufferings. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Peter. CONCLUSION: The Word of God is the proper and necessar...
1 Peter 2:4. _To whom coming as to a living stone._ The jews boasted of their temple, an undisputed blessing. But when the christians fled from Jerusalem, they took the true, the living temple with th...
FOR GOD'S WILL IS THIS. "I assure you that it is God's will that you submit yourselves to human authority. By doing this you will be able to silence those ignorant men who insult and slander you, and...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 2:13. SUBMIT YOURSELVES.—This belongs to the care Christians should take not to be in any sense an occasion of offence in Society (Romans 13:1). ORDINANCE OF MA...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 2:1 WHEREFORE LAYING ASIDE. Those who would wear the white robe of regeneration must lay aside the filthy garments (Zechariah 3:3) of the old carnal life. So St. Paul bids us put...
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and all envying, and all evil speakings (1 Peter 2:1), Set these things aside, we're to love one another with a pure heart fervently....
1 Peter 2:12; 1 Peter 4:2; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:18;...
Put to silence [φ ι μ ο υ ν]. A very graphic word, meaning to muzzle or gag. Compare 1 Corinthians 9:9; 1 Timothy 5:18. See on Matthew 22:12. Ignorance [α γ ν ω σ ι α ν]. In classical Greek it is an i...
The ignorance — Of them who blame you, because they do not know you: a strong motive to pity them....