NEW TESTAMENT

1 John 3:15

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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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Verse 14–15. We know that we have passed from death to life; that is from the death of sin to the life of grace: we know it by a moral certainty, when we experience in our heart a love of our neighbour.—He that loveth not God and his neighbour, abideth in death. He that hateth his brother with a mortal hatred, or to a considerable degree, is a murderer. Witham.

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