1PET 3:10 Parallel Verse View

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ULT For,
⇔  “Let the one wanting to love life and to see good days
⇔  stop his tongue from evil, and his lips not to speak deceit.

UST We know that this is true because, as David wrote,
⇔  “As for those who truly want to enjoy good lives,
⇔  they must not say evil things or speak deceitful things.

BSB For,
⇔ “Whoever would love life
⇔ and see good days
⇔ must keep his tongue from evil
⇔ and his lips from deceitful speech.

BLB For, "The one desiring to love life, and to see good days, let him keep the tongue from evil, and lips not to speak deceit.

AICNT For whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;

OEB “The person who wants to enjoy life
⇔ and see happy days –
⇔ they should keep their tongue from evil
⇔ and their lips from deceitful words,

WEBBE For,
⇔ “He who would love life
⇔ and see good days,
⇔ let him keep his tongue from evil
⇔ and his lips from speaking deceit.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET For
⇔  the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.

LSV for “he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips—not to speak guile;

FBV Remember: “Those who want to love life, and to see good days, must refrain from speaking evil, and not tell lies.

TCNT For,
⇔ “Whoever wants to love life
⇔ and see good days
⇔ must keep his tongue from evil,
⇔ and his lips from speaking deceit;

T4T Consider what the Psalmist wrote about the proper way of conducting our lives,
⇔ As for those who want ◄to enjoy life/to live happily► and experience good things happening to them every day,
⇔ they must not say [MTY] something that is evil or say [MTY] something that deceives others.

LEB • For“The one who wants to love life • and see good days • must keep his[fn] tongue from evil • and his lips must not speak deceit.

3:10 *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

BBE For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit:

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Wymth For "He who wishes to be well-satisfied with life and see happy days— let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from deceitful words;

ASV 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:

DRA 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.

YLT for 'he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips — not to speak guile;

Drby For he that will love life and see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil and his lips that they speak no guile.

RV 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:

Wbstr For he that will love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

KJB-1769 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:

KJB-1611 [fn]For hee that will loue life, and see good dayes, let him refraine his tongue from euil, and his lips that they speake no guile:
(For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refraine his tongue from euil, and his lips that they speak no guile:)

3:10 Psal.34. 13.

Bshps For he that doeth long after lyfe, and loueth to see good dayes, let hym refrayne his tongue from euyll, and his lippes, that they speake no guyle.
(For he that doeth long after life, and loveth/loves to see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lippes, that they speak no guile.)

Gnva For if any man long after life, and to see good dayes, let him refraine his tongue from euill, and his lippes that they speake no guile.
(For if any man long after life, and to see good days, let him refraine his tongue from evil, and his lippes that they speak no guile. )

Cvdl For who so listeth to lyue, and wolde fayne se good dayes, Let him refrayne his tonge from euell, and his lippes yt they speake no gyle.
(For who so listeth to live, and would fayne see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lippes it they speak no gyle.)

TNT If eny man longe after life and loveth to se good dayes let him refrayne his tonge from evyll and his lippes that they speake not gyle.
(If any man long after life and loveth/loves to see good days let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lippes that they speak not gyle. )

Wycl For he that wole loue lijf, and se goode daies, constreyne his tunge from yuel, and hise lippis, that thei speke not gile.
(For he that will love life, and see goode days, constreyne his tunge from evil, and his lippis, that they speak not gile.)

Luth Denn wer leben will und gute Tage sehen, der schweige seine Zunge, daß sie nichts Böses rede, und seine Lippen, daß sie nicht trügen;
(Because who life will and gute days see, the/of_the schweige his Zunge, that they/she/them nothing Böses rede, and his Lippen, that they/she/them not trügen;)

ClVg Qui enim vult vitam diligere, et dies videre bonos, coërceat linguam suam a malo, et labia ejus ne loquantur dolum.
(Who because vult life diligere, and days videre bonos, coërceat linguam his_own from malo, and labia his not loquantur dolum. )

UGNT ὁ γὰρ θέλων ζωὴν ἀγαπᾶν, καὶ ἰδεῖν ἡμέρας ἀγαθὰς, παυσάτω τὴν γλῶσσαν ἀπὸ κακοῦ, καὶ χείλη τοῦ μὴ λαλῆσαι δόλον.
(ho gar thelōn zōaʸn agapan, kai idein haʸmeras agathas, pausatō taʸn glōssan apo kakou, kai ⱪeilaʸ tou maʸ lalaʸsai dolon.)

SBL-GNT ὁ γὰρ θέλων ζωὴν ἀγαπᾶν καὶ ἰδεῖν ἡμέρας ἀγαθὰς παυσάτω τὴν ⸀γλῶσσαν ἀπὸ κακοῦ καὶ ⸀χείλη τοῦ μὴ λαλῆσαι δόλον,
(ho gar thelōn zōaʸn agapan kai idein haʸmeras agathas pausatō taʸn ⸀glōssan apo kakou kai ⸀ⱪeilaʸ tou maʸ lalaʸsai dolon,)

TC-GNT ⇔ Ὁ γὰρ θέλων ζωὴν ἀγαπᾷν,
⇔ καὶ [fn]ἰδεῖν ἡμέρας ἀγαθάς,
⇔ παυσάτω τὴν γλῶσσαν [fn]αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ κακοῦ,
⇔ καὶ χείλη [fn]αὐτοῦ τοῦ μὴ λαλῆσαι δόλον·
( ⇔ Ho gar thelōn zōaʸn agapan,
⇔ kai idein haʸmeras agathas,
⇔ pausatō taʸn glōssan autou apo kakou,
⇔ kai ⱪeilaʸ autou tou maʸ lalaʸsai dolon; )

3:10 ιδειν ημερας ¦ ημερας ιδειν PCK

3:10 αυτου ¦ — CT

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: writing-quotations

γὰρ

for

For here introduces a quotation from the Old Testament (Psalm 34:12–16). If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a comparable phrase that indicates that Peter is quoting from an important text. Alternate translation: [It is as David wrote in the scriptures]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / quotemarks

ὁ & θέλων ζωὴν ἀγαπᾶν, καὶ ἰδεῖν ἡμέρας ἀγαθὰς, παυσάτω

the_‹one› & wanting life /to_be/_loving and /to/_see days good /let/_cease

From this clause through to the end of 3:12, Peter quotes from Psalm 34:12–16. It may be helpful to your readers to indicate this by setting off all of this material with quotation marks or with whatever punctuation or convention your language uses to indicate a quotation.

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

ὁ & θέλων ζωὴν ἀγαπᾶν, καὶ ἰδεῖν ἡμέρας ἀγαθὰς

the_‹one› & wanting life /to_be/_loving and /to/_see days good

These two phrases mean basically the same thing and emphasize the desire to have a good life. If stating the same thing twice might be confusing for your readers, you could combine the phrases into one. Alternate translation: [the one truly wanting to have a good life]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

ἰδεῖν ἡμέρας ἀγαθὰς

/to/_see days good

Peter quotes David speaking of experiencing a good lifetime as to see good days. If this might confuse your readers, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [to experience a good lifetime]

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche

τὴν γλῶσσαν ἀπὸ κακοῦ, καὶ χείλη τοῦ μὴ λαλῆσαι δόλον

his tongue from evil and /his/_lips ¬which not /to/_speak deceit

Peter quotes David using the words tongue and lips to refer to the person who is speaking. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression from your culture or plain language. Alternate translation: [himself from speaking evil and from speaking deceit]

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

τὴν γλῶσσαν ἀπὸ κακοῦ, καὶ χείλη τοῦ μὴ λαλῆσαι δόλον

his tongue from evil and /his/_lips ¬which not /to/_speak deceit

If your language does not use abstract nouns for the ideas of evil and deceit, you can express the same ideas in another way. Alternate translation: [his tongue from saying evil things and his lips from speaking deceitful things]

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