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Wycliffe Bible

2 Peter 1:7

in pitee, love of britherhod, and in loue of britherhod charite.

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.
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 English Translation
to godliness, brotherly affection; to brotherly affection, unselfish love.
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 And bringe ye in alle bisynesse, and mynystre ye in youre feith vertu, and `in vertu kunnyng; 6 in kunnyng abstinence, in abstynence pacience, in pacience pitee; 7 in pitee, love of britherhod, and in loue of britherhod charite. 8 For if these ben with you, and ouercomen, thei schulen not make you voide, nethir with out fruyt, in the knowyng of oure Lord Jhesu Crist. 9 But to whom these ben not redi, he is blynd, and gropith with his hoond, and foryetith the purgyng of his elde trespassis. 10 Wherfor, britheren, be ye more bisi, that by goode werkis ye make youre clepyng and chesyng certeyn; 11 for ye doynge these thingis schulen not do synne ony tyme. For thus the entryng in to euerlastynge kyngdom of oure Lord and sauyour Jhesu Crist, schal be mynystrid to you plenteuousli.

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
And God clepide the firmament, heuene. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, the secounde dai.
Genesis 1:9
Forsothe God seide, The watris, that ben vndur heuene, be gaderid in to o place, and a drie place appere; and it was doon so.
Genesis 1:11
and seide, The erthe brynge forth greene eerbe and makynge seed, and appil tre makynge fruyt bi his kynde, whos seed be in it silf on erthe; and it was doon so.
Genesis 1:15
and shyne tho in the firmament of heuene, and liytne tho the erthe; and it was doon so.
Genesis 1:24
And God seide, The erthe brynge forth a lyuynge soul in his kynde, werk beestis, and `crepynge beestis, and vnresonable beestis of erthe, bi her kyndis; and it was don so.
Genesis 1:28
And God blesside hem, and seide, Encreesse ye, and be ye multiplied, and fille ye the erthe, and make ye it suget, and be ye lordis to fischis of the see, and to volatilis of heuene, and to alle lyuynge beestis that ben moued on erthe.
Genesis 1:29
And God seide, Lo! Y haue youe to you ech eerbe berynge seed on erthe, and alle trees that han in hem silf the seed of her kynde, that tho be in to mete to you;
Job 26:8
`Which God byndith watris in her cloudis, that tho breke not out togidere dounward.
Psalms 104:10
And thou sendist out wellis in grete valeis; watris schulen passe bitwix the myddil of hillis.
Psalms 148:4
Heuenes of heuenes, herie ye hym; and the watris that ben aboue heuenes,

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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