Believers are exhorted by the Apostle Paul to have brotherly love one for another. Be devoted to care one to another because we belong to the household of God. The early church showed such kind affections, brotherly kindness, one for another. Hodge says well, “No doubt, the idea is, Christians should love each other with the same sincerity and tenderness as if they were the nearest relatives.”

Members of the early church showed such brotherly affections:

Acts 2:44-46 And all that believed were together, and had all things common; 45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. 46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,