1 John 3:15
Good News Translation
Those who hate others are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life in them.

New Revised Standard Version
All who hate a brother or sister are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life abiding in them.

Contemporary English Version
If you hate each other, you are murderers, and we know murderers do not have eternal life.

New American Bible
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in himself.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in himself.

hateth.

Genesis 27:41 Esau therefore always hated Jacob, for the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him; and he said in his heart: The days will come of the mourning for my father, and I will kill my brother Jacob.

Leviticus 19:16-18 Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people. Thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the Lord. . . .

2 Samuel 13:22-28 But Absalom spoke not to Ammon neither good nor evil: for Absalom hated Ammon because he had ravished his sister Thamar. . . .

Proverbs 26:24-26 An enemy is known by his lips, when in his heart he entertaineth deceit. . . .

Matthew 5:21,22,28 You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill. And whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment. . . .

Mark 6:19 Now Herodias laid snares for him: and was desirous to put him to death and could not.

Acts 23:12,14 And when day was come, some of the Jews gathered together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they killed Paul. . . .

James 1:15 Then, when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.

James 4:1,2 From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members? . . .

hath.

John 4:14 But the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.

Galatians 5:21 Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.

1 Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever.

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

Context
Love One Another
14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death. 15Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in himself. 16In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.…
Cross References
Leviticus 19:17
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: But reprove him openly, lest thou incur sin through him.

Deuteronomy 19:11
But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wait for his life, and rise and strike him, and he die, and he flee to one of the cities aforesaid,

Matthew 5:21
You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill. And whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment.

John 8:44
You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

Galatians 5:20
Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects,

James 4:2
You covet, and have not: you kill and envy and cannot obtain. You contend and war, and you have not: because you ask not.

1 John 2:9
He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now.

1 John 2:11
But he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness and knoweth not whither he goeth: because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

Revelation 21:8
But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

1 John 3:14
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