2 Peter 1:7
New International Version
and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.

New Living Translation
and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone.

English Standard Version
and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

Berean Standard Bible
and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.

Berean Literal Bible
and into godliness brotherly affection, and into brotherly affection love.

King James Bible
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

New King James Version
to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.

New American Standard Bible
and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.

NASB 1995
and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.

NASB 1977
and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.

Legacy Standard Bible
and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, 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].

Christian Standard Bible
godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

American Standard Version
and in your godliness brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But unto the worship of God, the affection of the brotherhood, but unto affection of the brotherhood, love.

Contemporary English Version
concern for others, and love.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And in godliness, love of brotherhood; and in love of brotherhood, charity.

English Revised Version
and in your godliness love of the brethren; and in your love of the brethren love.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
to godliness add Christian affection; and to Christian affection add love.

Good News Translation
to your godliness add Christian affection; and to your Christian affection add love.

International Standard Version
your godliness with brotherly kindness, and your brotherly kindness with love.

Literal Standard Version
and with piety—brotherly kindness, and with brotherly kindness—love;

Majority Standard Bible
and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.

New American Bible
devotion with mutual affection, mutual affection with love.

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

New Revised Standard Version
and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.

New Heart English Bible
and in godliness, brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

Webster's Bible Translation
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

Weymouth New Testament
along with power of endurance, godliness; along with godliness, brotherly affection; and along with brotherly affection, love.

World English Bible
and in godliness, brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

Young's Literal Translation
and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;

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Context
Partakers of the Divine Nature
6and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. 8For if you possess these qualities and continue to grow in them, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.…

Cross References
Romans 12:10
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.

1 Peter 1:22
Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.


Treasury of Scripture

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

brotherly.

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…

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:

charity.

1 Corinthians 13:1-8
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal…

Galatians 6:10
As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

Colossians 3:14
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

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2 Peter 1
1. Peter confirms the hope of the increase of God's grace,
5. exhorts them, by faith, and good works, to make their calling sure;
12. whereof he is careful to remind them, knowing that his death is at hand;
16. and assures them of the authenticity of the Gospel, by the eyewitness of the apostles and the prophets.














(7) And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.--And in your godliness [supply] love of the brethren, and in your love of the brethren, charity. In other words, your godliness must not be selfish and solitary, but social and Christian; for he who loveth God must love his brother also (1John 4:20-21). And though "charity begins at home" with "them who are of the household of faith," it must not end there, but reach out to all men, whether Christians or not. (Comp. 1Thessalonians 3:12; Galatians 6:10.) The translation "brotherly kindness" is a little to be regretted; it obscures the exact meaning of the Word, and also the fact that the very same word is used in 1Peter 1:22. "Love of the brethren" means love of Christians as such, as members of the same great family, as God's adopted children. "Charity" means love of men as such, as creatures made in the likeness of God, as souls for which Christ died. The word for "charity" is emphatically Christian love; not mere natural benevolence.

Each in this noble chain of virtues prepares the way for the next, and is supplemented and perfected by it. It begins with faith, and it ends (like St. Paul's list of virtues, Colossians 3:12-14) with charity. But we must not insist too strongly upon the order in the series, as being either logically or chronologically necessary. It is a natural order that is here given, but not the only one. These three verses are the First Epistle condensed. Each one of the virtues mentioned here is represented quite distinctly in 1 Peter: virtue, 1Peter 1:13; knowledge, 1Peter 3:15; self-control, 1Peter 1:14; 1Peter 2:11; patience, 1Peter 1:6; 1Peter 2:21; godliness, 1Peter 1:15-16; 1Peter 3:4; love of the brethren, 1Peter 1:22; 1Peter 3:8; charity, 1Peter 4:8. The list of virtues given in the Epistle of Barnabas 2 runs thus:--Faith, fear, patience, long - suffering, temperance, wisdom, prudence, science, knowledge. The very slight amount of similarity affords no ground for supposing that the writer was acquainted with 2 Peter. . . .

Verse 7. - And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. The word for "brotherly kindness" (φιλαδελφία) is another link between the two Epistles (see 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 3:8). "In your godliness," St. Peter says, "ye must develop brotherly kindness, the unfeigned love of the brethren;" for "every one that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him" (1 John 5:1). And as God is loving unto every man, and "maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good," so Christians, who are taught to be followers (imitators) of God (Ephesians 5:1), must learn in the exercise of love toward the brethren that larger love which embraces all men in an ever-widening circle (comp. 1 Thessalonians 3:12). Thus love, the greatest of all Christian graces (1 Corinthians 13:13), is the climax in St. Peter's list. Out of faith, the root, spring the seven fair fruits of holiness, of which holy love is the fairest and the sweetest (comp. Ignatius, 'Ad Ephes.,' 14. Ἀρχὴ μὲν πίστις, τέλος δὲ ἀγάπη). No grace can remain alone; each grace, as it is gradually formed in the soul, tends to develop and strengthen others; all graces meet in that highest grace of charity, without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before God. Bengel says well, "Praeseus quisque gradus subsequentem parit et facilem reddit, subsequens priorem temperat ac perficit."

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Greek
and
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

to
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

godliness,
εὐσεβείᾳ (eusebeia)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2150: Piety (towards God), godliness, devotion, godliness. From eusebes; piety; specially, the gospel scheme.

brotherly kindness;
φιλαδελφίαν (philadelphian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5360: Brotherly love, love of Christian brethren. From philadelphos; fraternal affection.

and
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

to
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

brotherly kindness,
φιλαδελφίᾳ (philadelphia)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5360: Brotherly love, love of Christian brethren. From philadelphos; fraternal affection.

love.
ἀγάπην (agapēn)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 26: From agapao; love, i.e. Affection or benevolence; specially a love-feast.


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