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  • Aliens and Temporary Residents of Exemplary Conduct
    Choosing the Best Way of Life
    • 22. What encouragement does Psalm 34:12-16 provide about avoiding a vengeful spirit?

      22 Continuing his encouragement not to retaliate in word or in deed, Peter quotes from Psalm 34:12-16 and writes:

      “For, ‘he that would love life and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from what is bad and his lips from speaking deception,

  • Aliens and Temporary Residents of Exemplary Conduct
    Choosing the Best Way of Life
    • 23, 24. (a) What does it mean for us to “love life” and to want to “see good days”? (b) How do we benefit by showing a love for life?

      23 These words of Peter emphasize that treating all persons in a kind manner is really the only proper way to live, the best way to live. The person who ‘loves life,’ appreciating it as a gift from God, and who wants to see “good days”​—days that give him a sense of purpose and meaning in living—​shows this by promoting the happiness of his fellow humans. He keeps his tongue in check, not using it to downgrade, revile, deceive or to defraud others.

  • Aliens and Temporary Residents of Exemplary Conduct
    Choosing the Best Way of Life
    • 1 Peter 3:10

  • Aliens and Temporary Residents of Exemplary Conduct
    Choosing the Best Way of Life
    • 24 The person who demonstrates his love for life by helping others to enjoy happiness and peace makes himself a desirable associate. Others show by their words and actions that they view him as needed, wanted and appreciated. As a result, his life will never be empty or meaningless.​—Proverbs 11:17, 25.

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