1 Peter 3:10
For, He that would love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile:
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
11And let him turn away from evil, and do good; Let him seek peace, and pursue it.
Cross References
Job 2:4And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
Job 9:25Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Psalms 27:13I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Psalms 49:19He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see the 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 →