Romans 12:10

Be tender loving one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;
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Ambrosiaster

AD 400
Brotherly love is useless unless it is mutual. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.

John Chrysostom

AD 407
You should love one another because you are brothers and have been born from the same spiritual womb. … There is nothing which makes friends so much as the earnest endeavor to overcome one’s neighbor by honoring him.

Polycarp of Smyrna

AD 155
“Stand fast therefore in these things and follow the example of the Lord,” being firm in the faith and immovable, in love of the brotherhood kindly affectioned to one another, “partners with the truth,” forestalling one another “in the gentleness of the Lord,” despising no one.

Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220
: "Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love."

The Apostolic Constitutions

AD 375
I have fulfilled the word of peace. For I have taught that in honour they should prefer one another.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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