1 Peter 3:10

3:10 For

the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep ¹  his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.

1 Peter 3:20

3:20 after they were disobedient long ago ²  when God patiently waited ³  in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark ⁴  a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.

1 Peter 1:20

1:20 He was foreknown ⁵  before the foundation of the world but ⁶  was manifested in these last times ⁷  for your sake.

[3:10]  ¹ tn Grk “stop.”

[3:20]  ² tn This reflects a Greek participle, literally “having been disobedient formerly,” that refers to the “spirits” in v. 19. Many translations take this as adjectival describing the spirits (“who had once been disobedient”; cf. NASB, NIV, NKJV, NLT, NRSV, TEV), but the grammatical construction strongly favors an adverbial interpretation describing the time of the preaching, as reflected above.

[3:20]  ³ tn Grk “the patience of God waited.”

[3:20]  ⁴ tn Grk “in which,” referring to the ark; the referent (the ark) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[1:20]  ³ tn Grk “who was foreknown,” describing Christ in v. 19. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[1:20]  ⁴ tn Greek emphasizes the contrast between these two clauses more than can be easily expressed in English.

[1:20]  ⁵ tn Grk “at the last of the times.”