1 Peter 1:22
Seeing ye have wpurified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto xunfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another ywith a pure heart fervently:
Seeing 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:
τὰς ψυχὰς ὑμῶν ἡγνικότες ἐν τῇ ὑπακοῇ τῆς ἀληθείας διὰ Πνεύματος εἰς φιλαδελφίαν ἀνυπόκριτον, ἐκ καθαρᾶς καρδίας ἀλλήλους ἀγαπήσατε ἐκτενῶς·
Textual key: ‘through the Spirit’
w:
Acts 15:9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
John 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
1 John 3:3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
James 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
x:
Romans 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Romans 12:10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
1 Thessalonians 4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
2 Peter 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
1 John 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Hebrews 13:1 Let brotherly love continue.
y:
1 Timothy 1:5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
i.e. yourselves; the whole person is implied, the soul being the principal part.
in subjecting yourselves to the truth of the gospel, by faith, to which the purification of the heart is ascribed, Act 15:9, not only as to justification, and purging away the guilt of sin, but as to sanctification, and cleansing from the defilement of it: q.d. Seeing ye have begun to purify your hearts by faith in Christ, set forth in the gospel, and made sanctification to them that believe, 1Co 1:30.
by the operation of the Spirit working faith in you.
without hypocrisy, and which is not in word only, but in deed and in truth, 1Jn 3:18. Love to the brethren in Christ, and for Christ’s sake. This notes one great end of our sanctification, viz. the exercise of brotherly love, whereby our love to God is likewise manifested, when we love them upon his acconut. The whole clause may likewise be understood, as an exhortation to purify themselves more and more by faith, that so they might (being purged from carnal affections) be the better able, and more disposed, to love one another.
as the source and fountain of your love to each other, and from whence it proceeds, 1Ti 1:5 2Ti 2:22.
or, vehemently, and intensely, strongly. The word seems to be a metaphor taken from a bow, which the more it is bent, with the greater force it sends forth the arrow; so love, the more fervent and strong it is, the more abundantly it puts forth itself for the benefit of others.