1 Peter 3:10

Good News Translation

As the scripture says, “If you want to enjoy life and wish to see good times, you must keep from speaking evil and stop telling lies.

Cross References

Job 2:4

Satan replied, “A person will give up everything in order to stay alive.

Job 33:28

He kept me from going to the world of the dead, and I am still alive.”

Job 9:25

My days race by, not one of them good.

Psalm 106:5

Let me see the prosperity of your people and share in the happiness of your nation, in the glad pride of those who belong to you.

Psalm 27:13

I know that I will live to see the Lord's goodness in this present life.

Psalm 49:19

he will join all his ancestors in death, where the darkness lasts forever.

Proverbs 3:18

Those who become wise are happy; wisdom will give them life.

Proverbs 3:2

My teaching will give you a long and prosperous life.

Proverbs 4:22

They will give life and health to anyone who understands them.

Proverbs 8:35

Those who find me find life, and the Lord will be pleased with them.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

Driven on by my desire for wisdom, I decided to cheer myself up with wine and have a good time. I thought that this might be the best way people can spend their short lives on earth.

Matthew 19:17

“Why do you ask me concerning what is good?” answered Jesus. “There is only One who is good. Keep the commandments if you want to enter life.”

Mark 8:35

For if you want to save your own life, you will lose it; but if you lose your life for me and for the gospel, you will save it.

John 1:47

When Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, he said about him, “Here is a real Israelite; there is nothing false in him!”

John 12:25

Those who love their own life will lose it; those who hate their own life in this world will keep it for life eternal.

Deuteronomy 32:47

These teachings are not empty words; they are your very life. Obey them and you will live long in that land across the Jordan that you are about to occupy.”

James 1:26

Do any of you think you are religious? If you do not control your tongue, your religion is worthless and you deceive yourself.

1 Peter 2:1

Rid yourselves, then, of all evil; no more lying or hypocrisy or jealousy or insulting language.

1 Peter 2:22

He committed no sin, and no one ever heard a lie come from his lips.

Revelation 14:5

They have never been known to tell lies; they are faultless.