Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
love as brethren: Those who enjoy a common parentage or origin should love, and those who belong to Christ have a common spiritual parentage. Thus, they should love as brothers in Christ, having a natural feeling of concern just as those in fleshly families have. Even though the word "love" is used many times in the Greek New Testament, this is the only place where this word is used. It is philadelphos, meaning "loving brother or sister...in a broader sense, love one like a brother...loving one’s fellow-countrymen...of a Christian loving Christians" (Thayer 653-1-5361).