not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.
that ye should inherit a blessing: Those who obey the gospel of Christ have the promise of an eternal blessing: an inheritance of a home in heaven. Christians, then, both "bless and inherit a blessing" according to the teaching of Peter here (Moffatt, Twenty-Six Translations 1153).