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:
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Gill's Exposition
For he that will love life,.... This, with what follows here and in the two next verses, are taken out of Psa 34:12 and are produced as a proof of what is before said; that it is a good man's duty not…
Barnes' Notes
For he that will love life - Greek, “He willing, (θέλων thelōn,) or that wills to love life.” It implies that there is some positive desire to live; some active wish that life should be prolonged.…
Adam Clarke
For he that will love life - This is a quotation from Psa 34:12-16, as it stands in the Septuagint; only the aorist of the imperative is changed from the second into the third person, etc. He who…
The apostle here passes from special to more general exhortations.
I. He teaches us how Christians and friends should treat one another. He advises Christians to be all of one mind, to be unanimous in…
For he that will love life The three verses are from the LXX. version of Psa 34:12-16. It is characteristic of St Peter that he thus quotes from the Old Testament without any formula of citation. (See…
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