Like-minded
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ὁμόφρων describes the shared disposition of believers whose thinking, instincts, and relational posture are being brought into ordered unity under Christ. In 1 Peter 3:8 it does not mean that every Christian has the same personality, preference, background, emotional style, or secondary opinion.
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ὁμόφρων describes the shared disposition of believers whose thinking, instincts, and relational posture are being brought into ordered unity under Christ. In 1 Peter 3:8 it does not mean that every Christian has the same personality, preference, background, emotional style, or secondary opinion.
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include [be] like-minded (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at 1 Peter 3:8. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 Peter (1).
ὁμόφρων describes the shared disposition of believers whose thinking, instincts, and relational posture are being brought into ordered unity under Christ. In 1 Peter 3:8 it does not mean that every Christian has the same personality, preference, background, emotional style, or secondary opinion. It names a Spirit-formed harmony of mind that allows the church to move together in faithfulness while suffering, serving, forgiving, and loving as one family.
Peter places this word beside sympathy, brotherly love, compassion, and humility, so the idea is not bare doctrinal agreement or institutional control. It is truth-shaped, grace-softened, cross-formed togetherness. The church is not called to manufacture sameness; it is called to submit its judgments, ambitions, reactions, and relationships to the mind and way of Christ.
1 Peter 3:8, the locally indexed NT occurrence, where Peter summons the whole church to a shared mindset marked by sympathy, family love, compassion, and humility.
In 1 Peter, believers are addressed as scattered and pressured people whose public witness must be shaped by holiness, hope, submission to God, mutual honor, and suffering endurance. Within that setting, ὁμόφρων is not a decorative virtue. It is a survival grace for the church. A suffering congregation cannot afford to be ruled by pride, suspicion, retaliation, or factional instincts. Peter calls them to share a mind that is governed by Christ rather than by fear.
Because the local Greek index treats this as a single NT occurrence, its meaning should stay close to 1 Peter 3:8. The immediate context defines the word relationally: like-mindedness is joined with sympathy, brotherly love, compassion, and humility. That means Peter is not merely asking for intellectual agreement. He is summoning the church to a whole-life posture: to think together, feel with one another, love as family, bend low in humility, and resist the retaliatory reflex that follows in the next verses. The word serves Peter's larger argument that Christian conduct before a watching world must be beautiful because it is ordered by the Lord.
The gospel connection is real but indirect. 1 Peter grounds Christian identity in God's mercy, new birth, Christ's suffering, and the hope of glory. Therefore the church's shared mind is not created by pressure from leaders or preference from members. It is formed as redeemed people learn to live from the same mercy, under the same Lord, toward the same hope. The pulpit should present this word as a call to gospel-shaped togetherness, not as a slogan for forced agreement.
The exact lexeme is rare, so the canonical trajectory should be handled thematically, not as a broad concordance claim. Scripture repeatedly calls God's people toward a shared mind, common love, mutual honor, humility, and peaceable endurance. The closest canonical movement is the church's life together under Christ: unity without flattening conscience, agreement without coercion, humility without passivity, and love without sentimental compromise.
This trajectory is indirect and thematic, not an argument that ὁμόφρων itself carries the entire doctrine of Christian unity.
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Greek word. Unity of purpose and outlook within community, not merely agreement but shared conviction and mindset.
Unity of purpose and outlook within community, not merely agreement but shared conviction and mindset.
(ὁμός, φρήν), = ὁμόνοος, agreeing, of one mind: 1Pe.3:8.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
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of one mind
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How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
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ὁμόφρων is built from these roots:
Emphasizes shared gospel-centered thinking as the foundation of church unity. 1 Peter 3:8-12
This word opens a pastoral pathway for teaching church unity as a shared Christward posture rather than mere organizational peace. It lets a congregation see that unity includes how believers think, respond, sympathize, forgive, and carry one another under pressure.
It corrects shallow ideas of unity that reduce like-mindedness to sameness, silence, personality alignment, or agreement with whoever has the strongest voice. It also corrects individualism that treats personal preference as more important than the health and witness of the body.
Frame it from 1 Peter 3:8, not as a Greek lecture. Say something like: 'Peter is not asking the church to be identical. He is calling them to have a shared Christian mind, a common posture under Christ, so that their life together is marked by sympathy, family love, compassion, and humility.' Then show how the surrounding virtues define the word.
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