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The NET Bible®

2 Peter 1:7

to godliness, brotherly affection; to brotherly affection, unselfish love.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Fraternity;   Graces;   Holiness;   Kindness;   Love;   Meekness;   Religion;   Righteousness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Christian Graces;   Fruit, Spiritual;   Fruitfulness-Unfruitfulness;   Graces, Christian;   Self-Control;   Temperance;   Temperance-Intemperance;   The Topic Concordance - Blindness;   Charity;   Godliness;   Kindness;   Kingdom of God;   Knowledge;   Patience;   Stumbling/slipping;   Temperance;   Ungodliness;   Virtue;   Witness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Love to Man;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Faith;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fruit of the Spirit;   Godly, Godliness;   Perseverance;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Obedience;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Assurance;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Peter, the Epistles of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Blindness;   Brotherly Love;   Godliness;   Kindness;   2 Peter;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Brotherly Love;   Ethics;   Kindness;   Peter, Second Epistle of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Brotherhood (2);   Brotherly Love;   Character;   Commandment;   Discipline;   Family;   Fruit;   Godliness;   Hatred;   Kindness;   Numbers;   Perseverance;   Peter Epistles of;   Temperance ;   Temptation, Trial;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Godliness;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Judah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Peter, Second Epistle of;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom or Church of Christ, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Brotherly Kindness;   Charity;   Kindness;   Peter, Simon;   Peter, the Second Epistle of;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 24;   My Utmost for His Highest - Devotion for May 11;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
King James Version (1611)
And to godlinesse, brotherly kindnesse; and to brotherly kindnesse, charitie.
King James Version
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
English Standard Version
and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
New American Standard Bible
and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.
New Century Version
and to your service for God, add kindness for your brothers and sisters in Christ; and to this kindness, add love.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.
Berean Standard Bible
and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
Contemporary English Version
concern for others, and love.
Complete Jewish Bible
godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
Darby Translation
in godliness brotherly love, in brotherly love love:
Easy-to-Read Version
to your devotion add kindness toward your brothers and sisters in Christ, and to this kindness add love.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And with godlines, brotherly kindnes: and with brotherly kindnes, loue.
George Lamsa Translation
And to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
Good News Translation
to your godliness add Christian affection; and to your Christian affection add love.
Lexham English Bible
and with godliness, brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.
Literal Translation
and with the godliness brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.
Amplified Bible
and in your godliness, brotherly affection, and in your brotherly affection, [develop Christian] love [that is, learn to unselfishly seek the best for others and to do things for their benefit].
American Standard Version
and in your godliness brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love.
Bible in Basic English
And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.
Hebrew Names Version
and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
International Standard Version
your godliness with brotherly kindness, and your brotherly kindness with love.Galatians 6:10; 1 Thessalonians 3:12; 5:15; 1 John 4:21;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
but to godliness brotherly kindness, but to brotherly kindness love.
Murdock Translation
and to the fear of God, sympathy with the brotherhood; and to sympathy with the brotherhood, love.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
In godlynesse brotherly kyndnesse, in brotherly kyndnesse loue.
English Revised Version
and in [your] godliness love of the brethren; and in [your] love of the brethren love.
World English Bible
and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
and to patience godliness, And to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
Weymouth's New Testament
along with power of endurance, godliness; along with godliness, brotherly affection; and along with brotherly affection, love.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
in pitee, love of britherhod, and in loue of britherhod charite.
Update Bible Version
and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love.
Webster's Bible Translation
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
New King James Version
to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
New Living Translation
and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone.
New Life Bible
As you live God-like, be kind to Christian brothers and love them.
New Revised Standard
and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, in your godliness, brotherly affection, and, in your brotherly affection, love.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And in godliness, love of brotherhood: and in love of brotherhood, charity.
Revised Standard Version
and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
in godlynes brotherly kyndnes in brotherly kyndnes love.
Young's Literal Translation
and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
in godlynes, brotherly loue: in brotherly loue, generall loue.
Mace New Testament (1729)
to piety, fraternal affection: and to fraternal affection, universal benevolence.
Simplified Cowboy Version
and to godliness, don't forget about being a pard. But don't just be a pard to a few, love 'em all.

Contextual Overview

5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith excellence, to excellence, knowledge; 6 to knowledge, self-control; to self-control, perseverance; to perseverance, godliness; 7 to godliness, brotherly affection; to brotherly affection, unselfish love. 8 For if these things are really yours and are continually increasing, they will keep you from becoming ineffective and unproductive in your pursuit of knowing our Lord Jesus Christ more intimately. 9 But concerning the one who lacks such things—he is blind. That is to say, he is nearsighted, since he has forgotten about the cleansing of his past sins. 10 Therefore, brothers and sisters, make every effort to be sure of your calling and election. For by doing this you will never stumble into sin. 11 For thus an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, will be richly provided for you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

brotherly: John 13:34, John 13:35, Romans 12:10, 1 Thessalonians 3:12, 1 Thessalonians 4:9, 1 Thessalonians 4:10, Hebrews 13:1, 1 Peter 1:22, 1 Peter 2:17, 1 John 3:14, 1 John 3:16

charity: 1 Corinthians 13:1-8, Galatians 6:10, Colossians 3:14, 1 Thessalonians 5:15, 1 Peter 3:8, 1 John 4:21

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:8 - brethren 1 Corinthians 13:4 - is kind 1 Corinthians 14:1 - charity 1 Corinthians 16:14 - General Ephesians 4:32 - kind 1 Timothy 1:5 - charity 1 Peter 4:8 - fervent 2 John 1:5 - that we Revelation 2:19 - charity

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse "sky." There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 1:9
God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear." It was so.
Genesis 1:11
God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds." It was so.
Genesis 1:15
and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." It was so.
Genesis 1:24
God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind." It was so.
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground."
Genesis 1:29
Then God said, "I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
Job 26:8
He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.
Psalms 104:10
He turns springs into streams; they flow between the mountains.
Psalms 148:4
Praise him, O highest heaven, and you waters above the sky!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 7 And to godliness, brotherly kindness,.... Without which, godliness, or external worship, or a profession of religion, is a vain show; for this is both the evidence of regeneration, and of the truth and power of real godliness; and also the beauty, comfort, and security of Christian society and worship, and without which they cannot be maintained with peace, profit, and honour:

and to brotherly kindness, charity: or "love"; that is, to all men, enemies, as well as to the household of faith; and to God and Christ, to his house, worship, ordinances, people and truths. Charity is more extensive in its objects and acts than brotherly kindness or love. As faith leads the van, charity brings up the rear, and is the greatest of all.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And 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 13:0.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 7. Brotherly kindness — φιλαδελφιαν. Love of the brotherhood-the strongest attachment to Christ's flock; feeling each as a member of your own body.

Charity — αγαπην. 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 the salvation of those who do not believe as they believe, and who do not follow with them, have scarcely any religion, though in their own apprehension none is so truly orthodox or religious as themselves.

After αγαπην, love, one MS. adds these words, ενδετηαγαπη τηνπαρακλησιν, and to this love consolation; but this is an idle and useless addition.


 
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