and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
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and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
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in godlynes brotherly kyndnes in brotherly kyndnes love.
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And with godlines, brotherly kindnes: and with brotherly kindnes, loue.
Cross-references (15)
Passages linked to 2 Peter 1:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Hebrews 13:1 Let brotherly love continue.
- Romans 12:10 In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;
- 1 Thessalonians 3:12 May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
- Colossians 3:14 Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
- John 13:34-35 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- 1 Corinthians 13:1-8 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing. Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
- Galatians 6:10 So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
- 1 Peter 1:22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,
- 1 Peter 2:17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
- 1 John 3:16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
- 1 John 4:21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:9-10 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another, for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;
- 1 Peter 3:8 Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
- 1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:15 See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly…
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
Ver. 7. And to godliness, brotherly kindness] Zeal for God should eat us up, but not eat up our love to God’s people. Fire purgeth gold, but burneth it not; the fire of zeal may be warming, comforting, not scalding or scorching. Moses was angry with the people, but prayed for them. Christ was angry with the Pharisees, but grieved also for the hardness of their hearts, Mar 3:5.
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And to brotherly kindness, &c.] Love we must all men, but especially the family of faith; as our Saviour loved the young man, but not so as he did Lazarus, Mar 10:21; Joh 11:3.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Brotherly kindness; a love to those that are of…
Brotherly kindness; a love to those that are of the household of faith. This is joined to godliness, to show that it is in vain to pretend to true religion and yet be destitute of brotherly love.
Charity; this is more general than the former, and relates to all men, even our enemies themselves.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Without which, godliness, or external worship, or a profession…
Without which, godliness, or external worship, or a profession of religion, is a vain show; for this is both the evidence of regeneration, and of the truth and power of real godliness; and also the beauty, comfort, and security of Christian society and worship, and without which they cannot be maintained with peace, profit, and honour:
and to brotherly kindness, charity: or "love"; that is, to all men, enemies, as well as to the household of faith; and to God and Christ, to his house, worship, ordinances, people and truths. Charity is more extensive in its objects and acts than brotherly kindness or love. As faith leads the van, charity brings up the rear, and is the greatest of all.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain And to godliness brotherly kindness - No sullenness, sternness,…
And to godliness brotherly kindness - No sullenness, sternness, moroseness: "sour godliness," so called, is of the devil. Of Christian godliness it may always be said, "Mild, sweet, serene, and tender is her mood, Nor grave with sternness, nor with lightness free: Against example resolutely good, Fervent in zeal, and warm in charity." And to brotherly kindness love - The pure and perfect love of God and of all mankind. The apostle here makes an advance upon the preceding article, brotherly kindness, which seems only to relate to the love of Christians toward one another.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. Brotherly kindness] φιλαδελφιαν. Love of the brotherhood-the…
Verse 7. Brotherly kindness] φιλαδελφιαν. Love of the brotherhood-the strongest attachment to Christ's flock; feeling each as a member of your own body.
Charity] αγαπην. Love to the whole human race, even to your persecutors: love to God and the brethren they had; love to all mankind they must also have. True religion is neither selfish nor insulated; where the love of God is, bigotry cannot exist. Narrow, selfish people, and people of a party, who scarcely have any hope of the salvation of those who do not believe as they believe, and who do not follow with them, have scarcely any religion, though in their own apprehension none is so truly orthodox or religious as themselves.
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After αγαπην, love, one MS. adds these words, ενδετηαγαπη τηνπαρακλησιν, and to this love consolation; but this is an idle and useless addition.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain And to godliness brotherly kindness - Love to Christians…
And to godliness brotherly kindness - Love to Christians as such. See the Joh 13:34 note; Heb 13:1 note.
And to brotherly kindness charity - Love to all mankind. There is to be a special affection for Christians as of the same family; there is to be a true and warm love, however, for all the race. See the notes at 1 Cor. 13.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain "And in your godliness brotherly kindness"; not suffering your…
"And in your godliness brotherly kindness"; not suffering your godliness to be moroseness, nor a sullen solitary habit of life, but kind, generous, and courteous [ALFORD]. Your natural affection and brotherly kindness are to be sanctified by godliness. "And in your brotherly kindness love," namely, to all men, even to enemies, in thought, word, and deed. From brotherly kindness we are to go forward to love. Compare Th1 3:12, "Love one toward another (brotherly kindness), and toward all men (charity)." So charity completes the choir of graces in Col 3:14. In a retrograde order, he who has love will exercise brotherly kindness; he who has brotherly kindness will feel godliness needful; the godly will mix nothing stoical with his patience; to the patient, temperance is easy; the temperate weighs things well, and so has knowledge; knowledge guards against sudden impulse carrying away its virtue [BENGEL].
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 7. Godliness, unguarded, becomes morose and estranged from brethren,…
7. Godliness, unguarded, becomes morose and estranged from brethren, and loves its own solitude; therefore, in your godliness furnish brotherly kindness, or rather, brotherly love. And lest this become narrow and bigoted, in your love of the Christian brotherhood, furnish charity, a love that looks out beyond and embraces all mankind. Of these graces, love, then, is the crown. The order is not that of succession, for they all grow together, and are all essential to a full symmetrical Christian character.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. and to godliness brotherly kindness] Better, perhaps, love…
7. and to godliness brotherly kindness] Better, perhaps, love of the brethren. See note on 1Pe_1:22. The recurrence of the words may be noted as evidence in favour of identity of authorship.
and to brotherly kindness charity] Better, love. See note on 1Pe_4:8. It is to be regretted, as has been said before, that the varying usage of our translators hinders us from recognising at once the unity of the writers of the New Testament as to the greatness and majesty of “love.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (7) And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly…
(7) And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.—And in your godliness [supply] love of the brethren, and in your love of the brethren, charity. In other words, your godliness must not be selfish and solitary, but social and Christian; for he who loveth God must love his brother also (1Jn_4:20-21). And though “charity begins at home” with “them who are of the household of faith,” it must not end there, but reach out to all men, whether Christians or not. (Comp. 1Th_3:12; Gal_6:10.) The translation “brotherly kindness” is a little to be regretted; it obscures the exact meaning of the Word, and also the fact that the very same word is used in 1Pe_1:22. “Love of the brethren” means love of Christians as such, as members of the same great family, as God’s adopted children. “Charity” means love of men as such, as creatures made in the likeness of God, as souls for which Christ died. The word for “charity” is emphatically Christian love; not mere natural benevolence.
Each in this noble chain of virtues prepares the way for the next, and is supplemented and perfected by it. It begins with faith, and it ends (like St. Paul’s list of virtues, Col_3:12-14) with charity. But we must not insist too strongly upon the order in the series, as being either logically or chronologically necessary. It is a natural order that is here given, but not the only one. These three verses are the First Epistle condensed. Each one of the virtues mentioned here is represented quite distinctly in 1 Peter: virtue, 1Pe_1:13; knowledge, 1Pe_3:15; self-control, 1Pe_1:14; 1Pe_2:11; patience, 1Pe_1:6; 1Pe_2:21; godliness, 1Pe_1:15-16; 1Pe_3:4; love of the brethren, 1Pe_1:22; 1Pe_3:8; charity, 1Pe_4:8. The list of virtues given in the Epistle of Barnabas 2 runs thus:—Faith, fear, patience, long - suffering, temperance, wisdom, prudence, science, knowledge. The very slight amount of similarity affords no ground for supposing that the writer was acquainted with 2 Peter.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness…
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. The word for "brotherly kindness" (filadelfia) is another link between the two Epistles. (see 1Pe_1:22 1Pe_3:8) "In your godliness," St. Peter says, "ye must develop brotherly kindness, the unfeigned love of the brethren;" for "every one that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him". (1Jn_5:1) And as God is loving unto every man, and "maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good," so Christians, who are taught to be followers (imitators) of God, (Eph_5:1) must learn in the exercise of love toward the brethren that larger love which embraces all men in an ever-widening circle. (comp. 1Th_3:12) Thus love, the greatest of all Christian graces, (1Co_13:13) is the climax in St. Peter"s list. Out of faith, the root, spring the seven fair fruits of holiness, of which holy love is the fairest and the sweetest (comp. Ignatius, "Ad Ephes.," 14. jArch mestiv, telov deph). No grace can remain alone; each grace, as it is gradually formed in the soul, tends to develop and strengthen others; all graces meet in that highest grace of charity, without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before God. Bengel says well, "Praeseus quisque gradus subsequentem parit et facilem reddit, subsequens priorem temperat ac perficit."
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 7. Brotherly kindness. An active good will towards the…
7. Brotherly kindness. An active good will towards the saints. Love. The heart element which gives brotherly kindness its power and sweetness.
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