2 Peter 1:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 'And in your godliness brotherly-kindness;' not suffering your piety to be morose and sullen, but kind to the brethren. 'And in your brotherly-kindness love'-namely, to all men, even to enemies. From brotherly-kindness toward believers, we are to go forward to love to all men. (Compare 1 Thessalonians 3:12.) So charity completes the choir of graces in Colossians 3:14. In 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 patience; to the patient, temperance is easy; the temperate weighs things well, so has knowledge; knowledge guards against sudden impulse carrying away its virtue (Bengel).