Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Peter 3:11
Let him seek — To live peaceably with all men. And pursue it — Even when it seems to flee from him.
Let him seek — To live peaceably with all men. And pursue it — Even when it seems to flee from him.
LET HIM ESCHEW EVIL - Let him avoid all evil. Compare Job 1:1. AND DO GOOD - In any and every way; by endeavoring to promote the happiness of all. Compare the notes at Galatians 6:10. Let him seek pe...
IV. THE COMFORT IN THE MIDST OF TRIALS AND SUFFERING CHAPTER 3:10-4:19 _ 1. The comfort in suffering (1 Peter 3:10)_ 2. Few saved as illustrated by Noah's preaching (1 Peter 3:18) 3. The new life i...
This short and simple section deals with the wider relations of the Christian disciple to his fellow-disciples and to the world. It is an expansion of Christ's teaching in the Golden Rule. It is clear...
THE SILENT PREACHING OF A LOVELY LIFE (1 Peter 3:1-2)...
Finally, you must all be of one mind; you must have sympathy with each other and you must live in brotherly love; you must be compassionate and humble; you must not return evil for evil, nor insult fo...
ESCHEW. turn away (Greek. _ekklino._ See Romans 3:12) from (1 Peter 3:10). ENSUE. pursue....
_let him seek peace, and ensue it_ Better, perhaps, PURSUE or FOLLOW AFTER, as in 1 Timothy 6:11. The verb "ensue" has ceased almost, if not altogether, to be used transitively. It implies, both in it...
_For he that will love life_ The three verses are from the LXX. version of Psalms 34:12-16. It is characteristic of St Peter that he thus quotes from the Old Testament without any formula of citation....
ἘΚΚΛΙΝΆΤΩ. The word is used in a bad sense, “turning aside,” “gone out of the way,” in Romans 3:12 quoting from Psalms 14:3 and so often in the LXX., but in Romans 16:17 it is used of “keeping out of...
From Psalms 34; (12–16) quoted in 1 Peter 2:3 “Taste and see that the Lord is gracious.” It is a Psalm of confident trust in God’s protection of the righteous in spite of their constant afflictions. I...
B. SOCIAL DUTIES. 1 Peter 2:13 to 1 Peter 3:12 13 This warfare against heathen principles of living does not mean the subversion of the necessary bonds of society. Rather it deepens and intensifies...
ΈΚΚΛΙΝΆΤΩ _aor. imper. act. 3 pers. sing. от_ ΈΚΚΛΊΝΩ (G1578) отворачивать, отвращать, ΠΟΙΗΣΆΤΩ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160) делать, ΖΗΤΗΣΆΤΩ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΖΗΤΈΩ (G2212) искать, ΔΙΩΞ...
_6. TOWARD REVILERS 3:9-12_ but contrariwise blessing _Eulogeo_ (eu, meaning good, well, plus _logos,_ word, discourse): to speak well of. Hence in the New Testament, to bless, ascribe praise or glo...
Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. In A B C, Vulgate [ de (G1161)], 'Moreover (besides his words, in acts) let him.' ESCHEW - `turn from.' ENSUE - pursue as har...
VERSE 11. LET HIM ESCHEW EVIL, AND DO GOOD. Turn away from every evil, either deed or word, no matter what the kind of character of the act or word may be, or its cause or provocation, and in place o...
21 Following in the footprints left by our Lord while He was on earth is often taken as the ideal of human deportment for believers in Christ. And so it is-for the Circumcision, to whom Peter writes....
THE BLESSEDNESS OF CHRIST'S PEOPLE, THOUGH THEY SHOULD SUFFER LIKE CHRIST _B_ (iii). 1 Peter 3:1. Another divinely created ordinance of man is marriage. One of the purposes of Christianity was to teac...
ESCHEW] RV 'turn away from.' ENSUE] RV 'pursue.'...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 3 WIVES AND HUSBANDS v1 You wives must respect and obey your own husbands. Some husbands do not obey God’s word. When they see your good beh...
To ‘enjoy life and have good days’ does not mean that Christians can live without troubles in their lives. It means that God will care for them, if they live the right way. They should be careful what...
LET HIM ESCHEW EVIL. — Literally swerve _out of the way from evil._ The two former clauses dealt with the domain of _word_; these two with the domain of _action._ It suits St. Peter’s intention better...
CHAPTER 10 THEY WHO BLESS ARE BLESSED 1 Peter 3:8 THE Apostle now ceases from his special admonitions, and enforces generally such qualities and conduct as must mark all who fear the Lord. "Finally,...
1 Peter 3:10-12 = Psalms 34:12-17 a. introduced by mere γάρ as familiar. The lips of Christians who wish to love life must be free from cursing and from guile as were Christ's (_cf._ Isa. _apud_ ii. 2...
CHRISTIAN FAMILY-LIFE 1 Peter 3:1 In the previous chapter the Apostle had been urging the poor slaves of wealthy householders to submit quietly to wrongs, leaving God to vindicate. Here he turns to t...
The marriage relation was then dealt with, and special emphasis was laid on the fact that the true adornment of woman is found in her character rather than in her dress. Husbands are charged to dwell...
GOD'S WATCHFUL CARE FOR HIS CHILDREN Next, Peter quoted Psalms 34:12-16 in an effort to encourage his readers to follow the admonitions of verses 8-9. Those who would have a productive life on earth a...
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; (2) While they behold your chaste con...
The epistles of Peter are addressed to the elect Jews of his day, believing of course on the Lord Jesus, and scattered throughout a considerable portion of Asia Minor. The apostle takes particular car...
_THE BLESSINGS OF PEACE_ ‘Seek peace, and ensue it.’ 1 Peter 3:11 Peace is spoken of in three different respects. There is the peace of the _ great_ world of nations and of history. There is the pe...
11_Let him seek peace _It is not enough to embrace it when offered to us, but it ought to be followed when it seems to flee from us. It also often happens, that when we seek it as much as we can, othe...
After this general exhortation, brief but important to believers, the apostle takes up the relative walk of Christians in a world where on the one hand God watches over all, yet where He permits His o...
LET HIM ESCHEW EVIL,.... Avoid all kinds of evil, hate it, abstain from the appearance of it, and have no fellowship with it; and particularly should avoid rendering evil for evil, or taking revenge o...
Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. Ver. 11. _Seek peace and ensue it_] A contentious man never lacks woe. _Ut habeas quietum tempus, perde aliquid, _ was a proverb at...
_He that will love life_ That would make life amiable and desirable; _and see good days_ Namely, such as are prosperous and happy; _let him refrain his tongue from evil_ From railing, back-biting, tal...
Quoted from Psalms 34:12-16....
ESCHEW; avoid. ENSUE; follow, practise....
LET HIM ESCHEW EVIL AND DO GOOD; LET HIM SEEK PEACE AND ENSUE IT....
EXHORTATIONS TO CHRISTIANS IN GENERAL, BASED ON CHRIST'S WORK OF REDEMPTION AND HIS STATE OF EXALTATION. True brotherly love:...
There is similar instruction for wives, for theirs is the subject place, certainly not as slaves to a master, but as joined to their "own husbands," a most-intimate and precious relationship. Because...
_ 1 Peter 3:11 ‘And let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it'_ ‘LET HIM' -The language of choice. _‘TURN AWAY FROM EVIL'_ -‘shun wrong' (Mof) (Proverbs 4:14). Evil is...
8-13 Though Christians cannot always be exactly of the same mind, yet they should have compassion one of another, and love as brethren. If any man desires to live comfortably on earth, or to possess...
LET HIM ESCHEW EVIL, AND DO GOOD; let him not only in general avoid all sin, and exercise himself in all well-doing, (as the prophet's meaning, cited in the margin, seems to be), but particularly, let...
Tertullian On Monogamy And if I glance around at their examples-(examples) of some David heaping up marriages for himself even through sanguinary means, of some Solomon rich in wives as well as in ot...
1 Peter 3:11 away G1578 (G5657) G575 evil G2556 and G2532 do G4160 (G5657) good G18 seek...
‘For, “He who would love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile, And let him turn away from evil, and do good; Let him seek peace, a...
ALL ARE TO BEHAVE AS THOSE WHO ARE OBEDIENT WITH REGARD TO EACH OTHER (1 PETER 3:8). After briefly recalling admonitions he has already given (1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 2:22) Peter now sums up and expands...
The injunctions on the subject of the blamelessness of conduct by which Christians should be distinguished in their political, civil, and domestic relations, are now succeeded by a train of exhortatio...
1 Peter 3:11. AND LET HIM TURN FROM EVIL AND DO GOOD. The best authorities introduce the connecting ‘and,' or ‘further,' which the A. V. omits. The ‘eschew' of the A. V. (comp. Shakespeare's ‘What can...
LET HIM TURN AWAY (εκκλινατω). First aorist active imperative third person singular of εκκλινω, where the LXX has εκκλινον (second person singular). Old verb, in N.T. only here, Romans 3:12; Romans...
1 Peter 3:11 The character of the man to whom these words are addressed is a very singular one. "He that will love life," or, more accurately, "He that wishes to love life, let him seek peace, and ens...
1 Peter 3:1. _Likewise, ye wives be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; while they behold your c...
CONTENTS: Duties of husbands and wives toward one another. Exhortations to Christian consistency. Christ's vicarious sacrifice. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Sara, Abraham. CONCLUSION: Worldl...
1 Peter 3:1. _Ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands._ The same words occur in Ephesians 5:22. Col 3:18. The excellence of piety is pleaded here, as the first ornament of a wife. Wisdom conne...
AND DO GOOD. "It is not enough to just turn away from evil. You must actively make a habit of doing good!" Compare Matthew 12:43-45 and notes....
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 3:10 Peter draws on Psalms 34:12 (see note on 1 Pet. 2:3). To LOVE LIFE and s
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 3:8. OF ONE MIND.—One aim and purpose. This is possible when all seek the honour of Christ; impossible when each seeks his own honour. LOVE AS BRETHREN.—Or “lov...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 3:1 LIKEWISE, YE WIVES. St. Peter has spoken of the duties of servants: why does he omit those of masters? There must have been Christian masters in Asia Minor, as is plain from...
Shall we turn now to First Peter chapter three as Peter addresses himself to the wives? This particular section goes back to verse thirteen of chapter two, Submit yourself to every ordinance of man fo...
1 Timothy 6:18; 3 John 1:11; Colossians 3:15; Galatians 5:22;...
Eschew [ε κ κ λ ι ν α τ ω]. The old word eschew is from the Norman eschever, to shun or avoid. It reappears in the German scheuen, to be startled or afraid, and in the English shy, and to shy (as a ho...