1 Peter 3:8-12 - Called To Inherit A Blessing

⁸ Lastly, you must all be united, you must have sympathy, brotherly love, compassion, and humility, ⁹ never paying back evil for evil, never reviling when you are reviled, but on the contrary blessing. For this is your vocation, to bless and to inherit blessing;

¹⁰ he who would love Life and enjoy good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking guile: ¹¹ let him shun wrong and do right, let him seek peace and make peace his aim. ¹² For the eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their cry; but the face of the Lord is set against wrongdoers.