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2 Peter 1:7
7and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.
2 Peter 1:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
- English Standard Version (ESV)and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
- New King James Version (NKJV)to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
- New Living Translation (NLT)and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone.
Context of 2 Peter 1:7
5For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. 8For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.
Read all of 2 Peter 12 Peter 1:7 word by word
ἐν δὲ τῇ εὐσεβείᾳ τὴν φιλαδελφίαν, ἐν δὲ τῇ φιλαδελφίᾳ τὴν ἀγάπην.Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 2 Peter 1:7
- John 13:34“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Romans 12:10Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
- 1 Thessalonians 3:12May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:9Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.
- Hebrews 13:1Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.
- 1 Peter 1:22Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.
- 1 Peter 2:17Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the emperor.
- 1 John 3:14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death.
- 1 Corinthians 13:1If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
- Galatians 6:10Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.
- Colossians 3:14And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:15Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.
- 1 Peter 3:8Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.
- 1 John 4:21And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
Commentaries on 2 Peter 1:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Brotherly kindness - · Love of the brotherhood - the strongest attachment to Christ's flock; feeling each as a member of your own body. Charity - · Love to the whole human race, even to your persecutors: love to God and the brethren they had; love to all mankind they must also have. True religion is neither selfish nor insulated; where the love of God is, bigotry cannot exist. Narrow, selfish people, and people of a party, who scarcely have any hope of…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7And to godliness brotherly kindness - Love to Christians as such. See the John 13:34 note; Hebrews 13:1 note. And to brotherly kindness charity - Love to all mankind. There is to be a special affection for Christians as of the same family; there is to be a true and warm love, however, for all the race. See the notes at 1 Corinthians 13.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-7These verses use a stair-step structure to show how each virtue leads to the next. This pattern is a common literary device called a sorites. The order is not the main point. For example, Peter is not saying that moral excellence must come before knowledge. But he does show that love is the highest and most important virtue in the list (1:7).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. "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 forward to love. Compare 1Th 3:12, "Love one toward another…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Peter 1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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