1 Peter 3:8

Lastly, you should all be united, sympathetic, full of brotherly love, kind-hearted, humble-minded;

Twentieth Century New Testament

In The King James Version

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

In Context

7Again, those of you who are married men should live considerately with their wives, showing due regard to their sex, as weaker than their own, and not forgetting that they share with you in the gift of Life. Then you will be able to pray without hindrance.

9never returning evil for evil, or abuse for abuse, but, on the contrary, blessing. It was to this that you were called — to obtain a blessing!

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Cross References

Matthew 18:33Ought not you, also, to have shown mercy to your fellow-servant, just as I showed mercy to you?’

Acts 2:1In the course of the Festival at the close of the Harvest the disciples had all met together,

Acts 27:3The next day we put in to Sidon, where Julius treated Paul in a friendly manner, and allowed him to go to see his friends and receive their hospitality.

Romans 12:10In brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in showing respect, set an example of deference to one another;

Romans 15:5And may God, the giver of this patience and this encouragement, grant you to be united in sympathy in Christ,

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 3:2-8

Duties of Husbands and Wives. ( a. d. 66.) 1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; 2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. 3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet… Read the whole commentary →

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