2 Peter 1:7

7 in piety, love of brotherhood, and in love of brotherhood charity.

2 Peter 1:7 Meaning and Commentary

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.

2 Peter 1:7 In-Context

5 And bring ye in all busyness, and minister in your faith virtue, and in virtue knowing [soothly in virtue science, or knowing];

6 in knowing abstinence [in science soothly abstinence], in abstinence patience, in patience piety;

7 in piety, love of brotherhood, and in love of brotherhood charity.

8 For if these be with you, and overcome [and overcome, or be plenteous], they shall not make you void, neither without fruit [nor without fruit], in the knowing of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9 But to whom these be not ready, he is blind, and gropeth with his hand, and forgetteth the purging of his old trespasses.