1 Peter 3:10 Cross References - ACV

¹⁰ For he who wants to love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips not to speak deceit.

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 where ye go over the Jordan to possess it.

⁴ And Satan answered LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has he will give for his life.

⁷ O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good. ⁸ The eye of him who sees me shall behold me no more. Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good,

²⁸ He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall behold the light.

¹³ I believe that I shall see the goodness of LORD in the land of the living.

¹² What man is he who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good? ¹³ Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking deceit. ¹⁴ Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it. ¹⁵ The eyes of LORD are toward the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. ¹⁶ (The face of LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.)

¹⁹ he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

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.

² For length of days, and years of life, and peace, they will add to thee.

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her. And happy is everyone who retains her.

²² For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.

³⁵ For he who finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of LORD.

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.

¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. ¹⁷ For truly I say to you, that many prophets and righteous men longed to see the things that ye see, and did not see them, and to hear the things that ye hear, and did not hear them.

¹⁷ And he said to him, Why do thou call me good? There is none good except one, God. But if thou want to enter into life, keep the commandments.

³⁵ For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life because of me and the good news, this man will save it.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says about him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit.

²⁵ He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

²⁶ If any man among you seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is futile.

¹ Not many should become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive greater judgment. ² For we all stumble in many things. If any man does not stumble in word, this is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. ³ Behold we put bits into the mouths of horses for them to obey us, and we guide about their whole body. ⁴ Behold also the ships, being so great and driven by fierce winds, are guided about by a very small rudder, wherever the impulse of the man who steers determines. ⁵ So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles. ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell. ⁷ For every species, both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by the human species. ⁸ But no man is able to tame the tongue of men, an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. ⁹ By it we bless the God and Father, and by it we curse men, who were made according to a likeness of God. ¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and curse. My brothers, these things ought not to happen this way.

¹ Therefore, having put off all evil and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speaking,

²² Who did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth.

⁵ And no lie was found in their mouth, for they are unblemished.