Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
Parallel translations
- WEB Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,
- BSB Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.
- NKJV Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous;
- NASB To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, loving, compassionate, and humble;
- NLT Finally, all of you should be of one mind. Sympathize with each other. Love each other as brothers and sisters. Be tenderhearted, and keep a humble attitude.
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All believers are to be united, sympathetic, loving, compassionate, and humble. Christian community is marked by harmony and tender-hearted love.
Overview
Peter broadens his instruction to all believers, listing virtues that build unity: like-mindedness, sympathy, brotherly love, tenderheartedness, and humility ('courteous'). These qualities knit the church together as a family. Such mutual love reflects the character of Christ and adorns the gospel before a watching world.
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- Rom 12:10Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
- Eph 4:31Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
- 1 Pet 1:22Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
- Phil 4:8–9Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
- Jas 3:17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
- Eph 4:2With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
- Zech 7:9Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
- Col 3:12Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
- 1 Cor 12:26And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
- 1 Jn 3:18–19My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
- Matt 18:33Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
- Rom 12:15–16Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
- 1 Cor 1:10Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
- Heb 13:1Let brotherly love continue.
- 1 Jn 3:14We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
- Acts 4:32And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
- 2 Pet 1:7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
- 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
- 1 Pet 2:17Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
- Ps 103:13Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
- Jas 2:13For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
- Jas 5:11Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
- Phil 3:16Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
- Rom 15:5Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
- Prov 28:8He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
- Acts 27:3And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.
- Acts 2:1And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
- Acts 28:7In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.
- Luke 10:33But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,
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