1 Peter 3:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ γὰρ θέλων ζωὴν ἀγαπᾶν, καὶ ἰδεῖν ἡμέρας ἀγαθὰς, παυσάτω τὴν γλῶσσαν αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ κακοῦ, καὶ χείλη αὐτοῦ τοῦ μὴ λαλῆσαι δόλον:

Transliteration

For the one thelōn zōēn agapan, and idein hēmeras agathas, let-him-pausatō the glōssan of-him from kakou, and cheilē of-him of the not to-lalēsai dolon:

Grammar Details

• *thelōn*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - wanting/wishing
• *zōēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - life
• *agapan*: present active infinitive - to love
• *idein*: aorist active infinitive - to see
• *hēmeras*: accusative, feminine, plural - days
• *agathas*: accusative, feminine, plural - good
• *pausatō*: aorist active imperative, 3rd singular - let him cease/stop/restrain
• *glōssan*: accusative, feminine, singular - tongue
• *autou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of him/his
• *apo*: preposition + genitive - from
• *kakou*: genitive, neuter, singular - evil/bad/wrong
• *cheilē*: accusative, neuter, plural - lips
• *tou mē*: articular infinitive construction - of the not/to not
• *lalēsai*: aorist active infinitive - to speak
• *dolon*: accusative, masculine, singular - deceit/guile/treachery

Word Meanings

• *thelōn*: wanting/wishing/desiring
• *zōēn*: life/existence
• *agapan*: to love/to value/to esteem
• *idein*: to see/to perceive/to experience
• *hēmeras*: days/time periods
• *agathas*: good/pleasant/beneficial
• *pausatō*: let him cease/let him stop/let him restrain
• *glōssan*: tongue/language/speech
• *kakou*: evil/bad/wrong/harm
• *cheilē*: lips/edges
• *lalēsai*: to speak/to talk/to utter
• *dolon*: deceit/guile/treachery/craftiness

Referenced Verses

• Ps 34:12-16 : 12 What man is he that desireth life, And loveth [many] days, that he may see good? 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile. 14 Depart from evil, and do good; Seek peace, and pursue it. 15 The eyes of Jehovah are toward the righteous, And his ears are [open] unto their cry. 16 The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
• Jas 1:26 : 26 If any man {G1722} {G5213} thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain.
• Jas 3:1-9 : 1 Be not many [of you] teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment. 2 For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. 3 Now if we put the horses' bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, {G2532} we turn about their whole body also. 4 Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither {G302} the impulse of the steersman None willeth. 5 None So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members {G3779} is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beasts and birds, {G5037} of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind. 8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] a restless evil, [it is] full of deadly poison. 9 Therewith {G846} bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith {G846} curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God: 10 out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
• 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• 1 Pet 2:22 : 22 who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
• Rev 14:5 : 5 And in their mouth was found no lie: {G1063} they are without blemish.
• John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
• John 12:25 : 25 He that loveth his life loseth it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
• Prov 3:2 : 2 For length of days, and years of life, And peace, will they add to thee.
• Prov 3:18 : 18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: And happy is every one that retaineth her.
• Prov 4:22 : 22 For they are life unto those that find them, And health to all their flesh.
• Prov 8:35 : 35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, And shall obtain favor of Jehovah.
• Eccl 2:3 : 3 I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding [me] with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their life.
• Matt 13:16-17 : 16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. 17 For verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which ye see, and saw them not; and to hear the things which ye hear, and heard them not.
• Matt 19:17 : 17 And he said unto him, Why askest thou me concerning that which is good? One there is who is good: but if thou wouldest enter into life, keep the commandments.
• Mark 8:35 : 35 For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's shall save it.
• Ps 49:19 : 19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light.
• Ps 106:5 : 5 That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen, That I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, That I may glory with thine inheritance.
• Deut 32:47 : 47 For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.
• Job 2:4 : 4 And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
• Job 7:7-8 : 7 Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good. 8 The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
• Job 9:25 : 25 Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good,
• Job 33:28 : 28 He hath redeemed my soul from going into the pit, And my life shall behold the light.
• Ps 27:13 : 13 [ I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living.