Teks -- 2 Peter 1:7 (NET)

1:7 to godliness, brotherly affection; to brotherly affection, unselfish love.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: 2Pe 1:7 - Love of the brethren

Love of the brethren ( tēn philadelphian ).

See 1Pe 1:22.

Robertson: 2Pe 1:7 - Love

Love ( tēn agapēn ).

By deliberate choice (Mat 5:44). Love for Christ as the crown of all (1Pe 1:8) and so for all men. Love is the climax as Paul has it (1Co 13:13).

Wesley: 2Pe 1:7 - And to godliness brotherly kindness

No sullenness, sternness, moroseness: "sour godliness," so called, is of the devil. Of Christian godliness it may always be said, "Mild, sweet, serene, and tender is her mood, Nor grave with sternness, nor with lightness free: Against example resolutely good, Fervent in zeal, and warm in charity." And to brotherly kindness love - The pure and perfect love of God and of all mankind. The apostle here makes an advance upon the preceding article, brotherly kindness, which seems only to relate to the love of Christians toward one another.

JFB: 2Pe 1:7

"And in your godliness brotherly kindness"; not suffering your godliness to be moroseness, nor a sullen solitary habit of life, but kind, generous, and courteous [ALFORD]. Your natural affection and brotherly kindness are to be sanctified by godliness. "And in your brotherly kindness love," namely, to all men, even to enemies, in thought, word, and deed. From brotherly kindness we are to go forward to love. Compare 1Th 3:12, "Love one toward another (brotherly kindness), and toward all men (charity)." So charity completes the choir of graces in Col 3:14. In a retrograde order, he who has love will exercise brotherly kindness; he who has brotherly kindness will feel godliness needful; the godly will mix nothing stoical with his patience; to the patient, temperance is easy; the temperate weighs things well, and so has knowledge; knowledge guards against sudden impulse carrying away its virtue [BENGEL].

Clarke: 2Pe 1:7 - Brotherly kindness

Brotherly kindness - Φιλαδελφιαν· Love of the brotherhood - the strongest attachment to Christ’ s flock; feeling each as a member of your own body

Clarke: 2Pe 1:7 - Charity

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, εν δε τη αγαπῃ την παρακλησιν, and to this love consolation; but this is an idle and useless addition.

Defender: 2Pe 1:7 - brotherly kindness

"Brotherly kindness" (Greek philadelphia) is elsewhere translated "brotherly love."

Defender: 2Pe 1:7 - charity

"Charity" (Greek agape) is commonly rendered "love." This type of love is distinct from brotherly love. It involves deep respect for a person, recognizing the value and interests of that person and caring for him or her as a person of genuine worth."

TSK: 2Pe 1:7 - brotherly // charity

brotherly : Joh 13:34, Joh 13:35; Rom 12:10; 1Th 3:12, 1Th 4:9, 1Th 4:10; Heb 13:1; 1Pe 1:22, 1Pe 2:17; 1Jo 3:14, 1Jo 3:16

charity : 1Co 13:1-8; Gal 6:10; Col 3:14; 1Th 5:15; 1Pe 3:8; 1Jo 4:21

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 2Pe 1:7 - Brotherly kindness // Charity

Brotherly kindness a love to those that are of the household of faith. This is joined to godliness, to show that it is in vain to pretend to true religion and yet be destitute of brotherly love.

Charity this is more general than the former, and relates to all men, even our enemies themselves.

PBC: 2Pe 1:7

Brotherly kindness. Brotherly love, [literally the love of brothers].

 Charity. Concern, interest; [example] the sacred meal shared by the early church. [The point of this trait relates to an other-centeredness, as contrasted with self-centeredness.]

Benjamin Franklin wrote of a personal exercise that he attempted. He identified some thirteen practices that he believed to be the chief virtues of human conduct. He put them in what he thought to be logical order. He devoted a specific amount of time trying to master each trait in order. By the end of each period he thought he had fairly mastered the trait on which he had just focused his efforts. However, as the experiment advanced, he realized that emphasis on one virtue allowed the earlier ones to slip out of his sight and out of his faithful practice. By the end of the experiment, he reflected on the futility of the effort. He effectively demonstrated human depravity in his experiment. Try as we might, we humans cannot master the truly good and righteous life in our own abilities. Any effort to practice the good life apart from God’s direction and empowerment will fail. Peter gives us the foundation that Franklin missed in his experiment. The project of building a godly life starts with God. He gave us the list of virtues in Scripture. He sets the stage with the foundation of God’s empowerment and gift in faith. He keeps us in touch with the divine foundation at every stage. Let the building begin.

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Gill: 2Pe 1:7 - and to brotherly kindness, charity

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.