1 Peter 3:11 - Plain English Version11 Turn away from doing bad, and do good. Don’t make trouble. Try very hard to live happily with other people. Ver CapítuloMás versionesKing James Version (Oxford) 176911 Let him eschew evil, and do good; Let him seek peace, and ensue it. Ver CapítuloAmplified Bible - Classic Edition11 Let him turn away from wickedness and shun it, and let him do right. Let him search for peace (harmony; undisturbedness from fears, agitating passions, and moral conflicts) and seek it eagerly. [Do not merely desire peaceful relations with God, with your fellowmen, and with yourself, but pursue, go after them!] Ver CapítuloAmerican Standard Version (1901)11 And let him turn away from evil, and do good; Let him seek peace, and pursue it. Ver CapítuloCommon English Bible11 “They should shun evil and do good; ” “seek peace and chase after it. ” Ver CapítuloCatholic Public Domain Version11 Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it. Ver Capítulo |
We belong to God. He doesn’t give us rules about the things that we can’t eat or drink, but he wants us to have his spirit in us so that we will do the things that are right, and we will always feel good and quiet inside ourselves, and we will always be happy. If we live like that as we work for Jesus Christ, then we make God happy. And other people are happy with us too.
But if God’s spirit controls people, he gets them to do good things. You know that a good fruit tree always gets good fruit on it. Well, like that, a person with God’s spirit does good things. If you let God’s spirit lead you, he will get you to love God and to love other people. And you will be happy. And you will feel good and quiet inside yourself so that you will not fight with other people. God’s spirit inside you will help you be good to people and not get angry, even if they give you trouble. And he will get you to be friendly to other people, and he will get you to do good things. He will make you the sort of person that other people can trust.
So we believe in Jesus now, and God says we are all right, and he will not punish us. God is really good to us. Jesus Christ, our leader, did all that for us. Now we can be happy and think about how good it will be for us later, when we will be with God. God will show us how great he is, and he will make us great too.