2 Peter 1:7
add to reverence, affection for fellow-believers, add to affection for fellow-believers, love.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
In Context
6add to knowledge, self-control; add to self-control, patience; add to patience, reverence;
Cross References
John 13:34I am giving you a new command: Love one another. Love one another in the same way I have loved you.
1 Corinthians 13:1If I were to have eloquence in human languages—even the language of angels—but have no love, then I would only be an echoing gong or a clashing cymbal.
Colossians 3:14Above all, love one another, which is the perfect bond that will hold you together.
1 Thessalonians 4:9We certainly don't need to write and tell you to love fellow-believers, because God teaches you to love one another—
Hebrews 13:1May love for each other as brothers and sisters always continue!
1 Peter 2:17Respect everyone. Show your love to the community of believers. Have reverence for God. Respect the king.
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 →