1 Peter 3:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

For he who would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.

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  • Ps 34:12-16 : 12 Who is the man that desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good? 13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit. 14 Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. 15 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry. 16 The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is useless.
  • Jas 3:1-9 : 1 My brothers, do not be many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment. 2 For in many things we all stumble. If anyone does not stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. 3 Behold, we put bits in horses' mouths so that they may obey us; and we turn their whole body. 4 Look also at the ships, which, though they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned with a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires. 5 Even so, the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is among our members, that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast, and of bird, and of serpent, and of things in the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But no man can tame the tongue; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless God, even the Father; and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God. 10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
  • 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
  • 1 Pet 2:22 : 22 Who committed no sin, nor was deceit found in His mouth:
  • Rev 14:5 : 5 And in their mouth was found no deceit; for they are without fault before the throne of God.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!
  • John 12:25 : 25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
  • Prov 3:2 : 2 For they will add to you length of days, long life, and peace.
  • Prov 3:18 : 18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her: and happy is everyone who retains her.
  • Prov 4:22 : 22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.
  • Prov 8:35 : 35 For whoever finds me finds life and will obtain favor from the LORD.
  • Eccl 2:3 : 3 I searched in my heart to give myself to wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what is good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.
  • Matt 13:16-17 : 16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. 17 Truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things you see but did not see them, and to hear the things you hear but did not hear them.
  • Matt 19:17 : 17 And he said to him, Why do you call me good? There is none good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.
  • Mark 8:35 : 35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's, will save it.
  • Ps 49:19 : 19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
  • Ps 106:5 : 5 That I may see the good of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
  • Deut 32:47 : 47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land which you go over Jordan to possess it.
  • Job 2:4 : 4 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yes, all that a man has will he give for his life.
  • Job 7:7-8 : 7 Oh, remember that my life is a breath; my eye shall see good no more. 8 The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more; your eyes are upon me, and I am not.
  • Job 9:25 : 25 Now my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.
  • Job 33:28 : 28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
  • Ps 27:13 : 13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

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    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

    14Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

  • 1 Pet 3:11-13
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    11Let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.

    12For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their prayers; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.

    13And who is he who will harm you if you are followers of what is good?

  • 1 Pet 3:9
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    9Not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

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    3He who does not slander with his tongue, nor do evil to his neighbor, nor take up a reproach against his neighbor.

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    20He who has a perverse heart finds no good, and he who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

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    23Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

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    18He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who utters slander, is a fool.

    19In the multitude of words, there is no lack of sin, but he who restrains his lips is wise.

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    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.

  • 1 Pet 3:16-17
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    16Having a good conscience, so that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.

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    4A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it is a break in the spirit.

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    2A man shall eat well by the fruit of his mouth, but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.

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    2To speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men.

  • Titus 2:8
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    8Sound speech that cannot be condemned; that he who is of the opposite side may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you.

  • Eph 4:29
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    29Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.

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    1Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

  • Job 27:4
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    4My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

  • Prov 4:24
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    24Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.

  • Ps 37:27
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    27Depart from evil and do good, and live forevermore.

  • 1 Thess 5:15
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    15See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone; but always pursue what is good, both for yourselves and for all.

  • Prov 17:13
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    13Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

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    11The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

  • 1 Pet 2:22
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    22Who committed no sin, nor was deceit found in His mouth:

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    10Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

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    31The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.

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    29Do not devise evil against your neighbor, seeing he dwells securely by you.

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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

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    21Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

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    2For they will add to you length of days, long life, and peace.

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    8Cease from anger and forsake wrath; do not fret—it only leads to evil.

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    8But no man can tame the tongue; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

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    18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

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    16Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil.

  • Prov 22:18
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    18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be ready on your lips.

  • Prov 17:4
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    4A wicked doer listens to false lips, and a liar gives ear to a deceitful tongue.

  • Ps 39:1
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    1I said, I will be careful of my ways, so that I do not sin with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked are before me.

  • Ps 52:3
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    3You love evil more than good; and lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah.

  • Amos 5:14
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    14Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken.

  • Prov 11:27
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    27He who diligently seeks good procures favor, but he who seeks evil, it shall come to him.

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    12To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man who speaks perverse things;

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    19You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

  • Ps 141:3
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    3Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.

  • Job 20:12
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    12Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,