1 John 3:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

1 John 3:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 5:21-22
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: …
Proverbs 26:24-26
He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; …
Revelation 21:8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Leviticus 19:16-18
Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD. …

Topics

Anger Avenger of Blood Commandments Crime Cruelty Depravity of Man Discipleship Disobedience to God

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-19)

The beloved apostle can scarcely touch upon the mention of sacred love, but he must enlarge upon the enforcement of it, as here he does by divers arguments and incentives thereto; as, I. That it is a mark of our evangelical justification, of our transition into a state of life: We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren, 1 John 3:14. We are by nature children of w…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. hateth--equivalent to “loveth not” (1Jo 3:14); there is no medium between the two. “Love and hatred, like light and darkness, life and death, necessarily replace, as well as necessarily exclude, one another” [Alford]. is a murderer--because indulging in that passion, which, if followed out to its natural consequences, would make him one. “Whereas, 1Jo 3:16 desires us to lay down our lives for…