2 Peter 1:7 (ASV)

Passage

and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love.

Nearby Context

2 Peter 1:5 Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in [your] virtue knowledge;

2 Peter 1:6 and in [your] knowledge self-control; and in [your] self-control patience; and in [your] patience godliness;

2 Peter 1:7 and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love.

2 Peter 1:8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:9 For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "godliness", "brotherly", "kindness", and "love". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "godliness" and "brotherly", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 6's "and in your knowledge self-control and in..." into verse 8's "For if these things are yours and...", so "godliness" and "brotherly" belong inside that flow. In 2 Peter context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "godliness" and "brotherly" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.