1 Peter 3:9

James Moffatt - New Testament

never paying back evil for evil, never reviling when you are reviled, but on the contrary blessing. For this is your vocation, to bless and to inherit blessing;

Cross References

Romans 12:17

Never pay back evil for evil to anyone; aim to be above reproach in the eyes of all;

Romans 12:14

Bless those who make a practice of persecuting you; bless them instead of cursing them.

1 Thessalonians 5:15

see that none of you pays back evil for evil, but always aim at what is kind to one another and to all the world;

Matthew 5:44

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Ephesians 4:32

be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.

Matthew 5:39

But I tell you, you are not to resist an injury: whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well;

1 Peter 5:10

Once you have suffered for a little, the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will repair and recruit and strengthen you.

Romans 8:28

We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything.

Matthew 25:34

Then shall the King say to those on his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, come into your inheritance in the realm prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Hebrews 6:14

I will indeed bless you and multiply you.

Luke 18:18

Then a ruler asked him, "Good teacher, what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"

Luke 10:25

Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"

Matthew 19:29

Everyone who has left brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands or houses for my name's sake will get a hundred times as much and inherit life eternal.

Romans 8:30

Then he calls those whom he has thus decreed; then he justifies those whom he has called; then he glorifies those whom he has justified.

Mark 10:17

As he went out on the road a man ran up and knelt down before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit life eternal?"

Galatians 3:14

that the blessing of Abraham might reach the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promised Spirit.

Hebrews 12:17

You know how later on, when he wanted to obtain his inheritance of blessing, he was set aside; he got no chance to repent, though he tried for it with tears.