Be kindly affectioned. The word used here occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. It properly denotes tender affection, such as that whi…

With brotherly love.—Better translated as in the margin, In love of the brethren (fellow Christians) be kindly affect…

In honour preferring one another;

Putting another before yourself, aspiring after the second place, rather than the first.

“Love” (GK 27) is primary, but if it is not sincere, it is not real love but only pretense. In 1 Corinthians Paul paused in his discu ion of spirit…

With brotherly love, etc. He could not find words adequate to express the ardor of that love with which we should embrace one another. For…

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love ,
&c.] This is one branch of that love, before advised to, …

The love Christians profe for each other should be sincere, free from deceit, and empty and deceitful compliments. Depending on Divine grace, they …

1. After this admonition, the Apostle gives a reason based on the mystical body’s likene to a natural body. He first addre es three things i…