Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Peter 3:9

9 Not rendring evil for evil, or railing for railing , but contrarywise blessing , knowing that ye are thereunto called , that ye should inherit a blessing .

Not recompensing Evil either in Words or Deeds, Prov. 24.29. See on chap, 2.3. of this Epistle, Rom. 12.14, 17, 19, 21.

Praying for, and as ye can, doing good to those that do evil to you, or speak evil of you, Matth. 5.39, 44. Luke 16.27, 28.

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.

In your Conversion to the Faith of Christ.

This either shews 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.

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, 1 Tim. 4.8. and which they have by right of inheritance, Psal. 37.11. Matth. 5.5. and this seems to agree with v. 10, 11, 12.

Marginal references: Prov. 17.13. and 20.22. 1 Thess. 5.18.; Matth. 25.34.