Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadMatthew Poole Commentary - 1 Peter 3:9 - 3:9
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; not recompensing evil either in words or deeds, Pro_24:29: See Poole on "1Pe_2:3", see Rom_12:14,17,19,21.
But contrariwise blessing; praying for, and, as ye can, doing good to, those that do evil to you, or speak evil of you, Mat_5:39,44 Lu 16:27,28.
Knowing that ye are thereunto called; either:
1. To bless those that do evil to you, that so by patient bearing of injuries, forbearing private revenge, &c., ye might obtain a blessing. Or:
2. Ye are called hereunto, viz. to inherit a blessing.
Called; in your conversion to the faith of Christ.
That ye should inherit a blessing: this either shows how believers came to partake of the blessing, viz. by way of inheritance; or it implies the perpetuity of it, that, whereas they can exercise their patience in suffering injuries but a little while, their recompence shall be for ever.
A blessing; either:
1. Eternal life, as the greatest blessing: or:
2. The good things of both lives, temporal, spiritual, and eternal mercies, which are all promised to the godly, 1Ti_4:8, and which they have by right of inheritance, Psa_37:11 Mat_5:5: and this seems to agree with 1Pe_3:10-12.