2 Peter 1:7

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].

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.

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 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

⁵For this very reason, applying your diligence [to the divine promises], make every effort in [exercising] your faith to develop moral excellence, and in moral excellence, knowledge (insight, understanding), ⁶and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, steadfastness, and in your steadfastness, godliness, ⁷and 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].⁸For as these qualities are yours and are increasing [in you as you grow toward spiritual maturity], they will keep you from being useless and unproductive in regard to the true knowledge and greater understanding of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹For whoever lacks these qualities is blind—shortsighted [closing his spiritual eyes to the truth], having become oblivious to the fact that he was cleansed from his old sins. ¹⁰Therefore, believers, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you [be sure that your behavior reflects and confirms your relationship with God]; for by doing these things [actively developing these virtues], you will never stumble [in your spiritual growth and will live a life that leads others away from sin]; ¹¹for in this way entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly provided to 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 [of sky] heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

Genesis 1:9
Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place [of standing, pooling together], and let the dry land appear"; and it was so.

Genesis 1:11
So God said, "Let the earth sprout [tender] vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit according to (limited to, consistent with) their kind, whose seed is in them upon the earth"; and it was so.

Genesis 1:15
and let them be useful as lights in the expanse of the heavens to provide light on the earth"; and it was so, [just as He commanded].

Genesis 1:24
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to (limited to, consistent with) their kind: livestock, crawling things, and wild animals of the earth according to their kinds"; and it was so [because He had spoken them into creation].

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them [granting them certain authority] and said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subjugate it [putting it under your power]; and rule over (dominate) the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and every living thing that moves upon the earth."

Genesis 1:29
So God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of the entire earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;

Job 26:8
"He wraps the waters in His clouds [which otherwise would spill on earth all at once], And the cloud does not burst under them.

Psalms 104:10
You send springs into the valleys; Their waters flow among the mountains.

Psalms 148:4
Praise Him, highest heavens, And the waters above the heavens!

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.