7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Let brotherly love continue.
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. …
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-11)In these words the apostle comes to the chief thing intended in this epistle—to excite and engage them to advance in grace and holiness, they having already obtained precious faith, and been made partakers of the divine nature. This is a very good beginning, but it is not to be rested in, as if we were already perfect. The apostle had prayed that grace and peace might be multiplied to them, and no…
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