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1Peter 3:10-12
10 For, "Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.
11 He must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.
12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."

1. ADDRESS THE TONGUE (10) …keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.        
So how do we stop or control our tongue?                  
A. Keep it from speaking evil.

B. Keep our lips from guile. The word guile in the Greek means deceit.                                                        
Prov. 10:18  He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.                                
Eph. 4:31  Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

2. TURN FROM EVIL AND DO GOOD (11)          KJV says “eschew” evil. Which means to shun, avoid, turn away from.

• Flee fornication – 1 Cor. 6:18  Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
• Flee adultery – 1 Cor.10:14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
• Flee hurtful lusts and the love of money – 1Tim 6:9-11 People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.

10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. 11 But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.

• Flee youthful lusts – 2Tim. 2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• Flee all forms of evil – 2 Tim 3:1-5 1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

Heb. 13:16
And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.                 

James 4:17
Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.

3. SEEK AND PURSUE PEACE
  (11)
he must seek peace and pursue it.



Rom. 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit,

4. REMEMBER LIFE’S SOURCE (12)                    
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."                             

Heb. 12:2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Heb. 5:9  and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him

1 Cor. 14:33 For God is not a God of disorder but of peace. As in all the congregations of the saints,