1 Peter 3:10
HAISH HECHAFETZ CHAYYIM OHEV YAMIM LIROT TOV (For the one wanting to love life and to see good days) NETZOR L'SHONECHA MERAH U'SFATECHA MIDABER MIRMAH (Let him stop his tongue from speaking lashon hora and his lips from speaking remiyah). + 3:10 guile, fraud, deceit
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
11“Let him turn away from resha and let him do that which is good, let him seek shalom and pursue it;”
Cross References
Job 2:4And HaSatan answered Hashem, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that an ish hath will he give for his nefesh.
Job 9:25Now my yamim are swifter than a runner; 1 they flee away, they see no tovah. 1
Psalms 27:13Did I not believe to see Hashemʼs goodness 1 in the Eretz Chayyim! 1
Psalms 49:19Though his nefesh during his life yevarech (he blessed) — 1 for they praise thee when thou doest well for thyself — 1
Proverbs 3:2For orekh yamim (length of days), and shnot chayyim, 1 and shalom, shall they add to thee. 1
Proverbs 4:22For they are chayyim unto those that find them, 1 and health to all their basar. 1
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 →