2 Peter 1:7
your godliness with brotherly affection, and your brotherly affection with love.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
In Context
6your knowledge with self-control, your self-control with endurance, your endurance with godliness,
Cross References
John 13:34I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you must love one another.
1 Corinthians 13:1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
Colossians 3:14Above all, put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
1 Thessalonians 4:9Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
Hebrews 13:1Continue in brotherly love.
1 Peter 2:17Give honor to all, love the brotherhood, fear God, and honor 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 →