And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
Ver. 7. And to godliness, brotherly kindness] Zeal for God should eat us up, but not eat up our love to God's people. Fire purgeth gold, but burneth it not; the fire of zeal may be warming, comforting, not scalding or scorching. Moses was angry with the people, but prayed for them. Christ was angry with the Pharisees, but grieved also for the hardness of their hearts, Mark 3:5 .
And to brotherly kindness, &c.] Love we must all men, but especially the family of faith; as our Saviour loved the young man, but not so as he did Lazarus, Mark 10:21; John 11:3 .