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For (gar). Reason for the entire exhortation in 1Pe 3:8, 1Pe 3:9 and introducing in 1Pe 3:10-12 a quotation from Psa 34:13-17 with some slight changes.
Would love life (thelōn zōēn agapāin). “Wishing to love life.” This present life. The lxx expressions are obscure Hebraisms. The lxx has agapōn (participle present active of agapaō, not the infinitive agapāin.
Let him refrain (pausatō). Third person singular first aorist active imperative of pauō to make stop, whereas the lxx has pauson (second person singular).
His tongue (tēn glōssan). See Jam 3:1-12.
That they speak no guile (tou mē lalēsai dolon). Purpose clause with genitive article tou (negative mē) and the first aorist active infinitive of laleō. But it can also be explained as the ablative case with the redundant negative mē after a verb of hindering (pausatō) like Luk 4:42. See Robertson, Grammar, p. 1061. “Let him refrain his lips from speaking guile.”