2 Peter 1:7
and with godliness brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
In Context
Cross References
John 13:34A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
1 Corinthians 13:1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become as sounding brass or a clashing cymbal.
Colossians 3:14But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
1 Thessalonians 4:9Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for me to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
Hebrews 13:1Let brotherly love continue.
1 Peter 2:17Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king. 1 Submission to Masters
Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 1:6-12
Spiritual Diligence; Advancement in Holiness. ( a. d. 67.) 5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see… Read the whole commentary →