1 Peter 3:10

For he that will love life and see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil and his lips that they speak no guile.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

In Context

9not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but on the contrary, blessing [others], because ye have been called to this, that ye should inherit blessing.

11And let him avoid evil, and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it;

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Cross References

Job 2:4And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life;

Job 9:25And my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.

Psalms 27:13Unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living !

Psalms 49:19It shall go to the generation of his fathers: they shall never see light.

Proverbs 3:2for length of days, and years of life, and peace shall they add to thee.

Proverbs 4:22For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 3:9-16

Duties towards Friends and Enemies. ( a. d. 66.) 8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: 9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. 10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: 11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. 12… Read the whole commentary →

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