1st John Chapter 3 verse 15 Holy Bible
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
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Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him.
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Every one that hates his brother is a murderer, and ye know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
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Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
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Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
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Every one who is hating his brother -- a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,
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1st John 3 : 15 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - As in 1 John 4:20, St. John passes at once from not loving to hating, treating the two as equivalent. He takes no account of the neutral ground of indifference. He that is not for his brother is against him. Indifference is hate quiescent, there being nothing to excite it. Love is the only security against hate. And as every one who does not love is potentially a hater, so every hater is potentially a murderer. A murderer is a hater who expresses his hatred in the most emphatic way. A hater who does not murder abstains for various reasons from this extreme way of expressing his hate. But the temper of the two men is the same; and it is obvious (οἴδατε "ye know what needs no evidence") that every murderer is incapable of possessing eternal life. It is the murderous temper, not the act of homicide, that excludes from eternal life. St. John, of course, does not mean that murder is an unpardonable sin; but he shows that hate and death go together, as love and life, and that the two pairs are mutually exclusive. How can life and the desire to extinguish life be compatible? It is very forced to interpret ἀνθρωποκτόνος as either "destroyer of his own soul," or "destroyer of the hated man's soul," by provoking him to return hate for hate.
