2 Peter 1:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

2 Peter 1:7 —

Old words in this verse

charity: — love.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 13:1
Let brotherly love continue.
Romans 12:10
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
1 Thessalonians 3:12
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
John 13:34-35
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. …
Colossians 3:14
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. “And in your godliness brotherly kindness”; not suffering your godliness to be moroseness, nor a sullen solitary habit of life, but kind, generous, and courteous [Alford]. Your natural affection and brotherly kindness are to be sanctified by godliness. “And in your brotherly kindness love,” namely, to all men, even to enemies, in thought, word, and deed. From brotherly kindness we are to go for…