and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
You have obtained precious faith already, yet you must not rest there as if perfection were reached. Without all diligence you gain no ground in holiness; the slothful make nothing of religion. Strive, or you will not enter in at the strait gate.
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Commenting on 2 Peter 1:5-11
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...
Verse 7. And to godliness brotherly kindness. Love to Christians as such. ; . And to brotherly kindness charity. Love to all mankind. There is to be a peculiar affection for Christians as of the same family; there is to be a true and warm love, however, for all the race. , seq. (f) "kindness" (g) "brotherly kindness" (+) "charity" "Love"