1 John 3:15

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Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

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  • Matt 5:21-22 : 21 Anger and Murder“You have heard that it was said to an older generation,‘Do not murder,’ and‘whoever murders will be subjected to judgment.’ 22 But I say to you that anyone who is angry with a brother will be subjected to judgment. And whoever insults a brother will be brought before the council, and whoever says‘Fool’ will be sent to fiery hell.
  • Acts 23:14 : 14 They went to the chief priests and the elders and said,“We have bound ourselves with a solemn oath not to partake of anything until we have killed Paul.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But as for the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death.”
  • Prov 26:24-26 : 24 The one who hates others disguises it with his lips, but he stores up deceit within him. 25 When he speaks graciously, do not believe him, for there are seven abominations within him. 26 Though his hatred may be concealed by deceit, his evil will be uncovered in the assembly.
  • Gal 5:20-21 : 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions, 21 envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!
  • Matt 5:28 : 28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
  • John 8:44 : 44 You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
  • Acts 23:12 : 12 The Plot to Kill Paul When morning came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.
  • Gen 27:41 : 41 So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately,“The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!”
  • Lev 19:16-18 : 16 You must not go about as a slanderer among your people. You must not stand idly by when your neighbor’s life is at stake. I am the LORD. 17 You must not hate your brother in your heart. You must surely reprove your fellow citizen so that you do not incur sin on account of him. 18 You must not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the children of your people, but you must love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
  • 2 Sam 13:22-28 : 22 But Absalom said nothing to Amnon, either bad or good, yet Absalom hated Amnon because he had humiliated his sister Tamar. 23 Absalom Has Amnon Put to Death Two years later Absalom’s sheepshearers were in Baal Hazor, near Ephraim. Absalom invited all the king’s sons. 24 Then Absalom went to the king and said,“My shearers have begun their work. Let the king and his servants go with me.” 25 But the king said to Absalom,“No, my son. We shouldn’t all go. We shouldn’t burden you in that way.” Though Absalom pressed him, the king was not willing to go. Instead, David blessed him. 26 Then Absalom said,“If you will not go, then let my brother Amnon go with us.” The king replied to him,“Why should he go with you?” 27 But when Absalom pressed him, he sent Amnon and all the king’s sons along with him. 28 Absalom instructed his servants,“Look! When Amnon is drunk and I say to you,‘Strike Amnon down,’ kill him then and there. Don’t fear! Is it not I who have given you these instructions? Be strong and courageous!”
  • Mark 6:19 : 19 So Herodias nursed a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she could not
  • John 4:14 : 14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”
  • Jas 1:15 : 15 Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.
  • Jas 4:1-2 : 1 Passions and Pride Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you? 2 You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask;
  • 1 Pet 1:23 : 23 You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

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    9Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God’s seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.

    10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness– the one who does not love his fellow Christian– is not of God.

    11God Is Love, So We Must Love One Another For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,

    12not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.

    13Therefore do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.

    14We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

  • 1 John 3:16-18
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    16We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

    17But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person?

    18Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.

  • 1 John 2:9-11
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    9The one who says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness.

    10The one who loves his fellow Christian resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

    11But the one who hates his fellow Christian is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

  • 1 John 4:19-21
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    19We love because he loved us first.

    20If anyone says“I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

    21And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

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    16If anyone sees his fellow Christian committing a sin not resulting in death, he should ask, and God will grant life to the person who commits a sin not resulting in death. There is a sin resulting in death. I do not say that he should ask about that.

    17All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death.

    18We know that everyone fathered by God does not sin, but God protects the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.

  • Matt 5:21
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    21Anger and Murder“You have heard that it was said to an older generation,‘Do not murder,’ and‘whoever murders will be subjected to judgment.’

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  • 1 John 3:4-6
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    4Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.

    5And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

    6Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

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    23The one who hates me hates my Father too.

  • John 3:20
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    20For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.

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    25The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.

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    11Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

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    11However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.

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    36But the one who misses me brings harm to himself; all who hate me love death."

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    9Everyone who goes on ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.

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    17This I command you– to love one another.

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    15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

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    12The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life.

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    16And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

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    3Keeping God’s Commandments Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.

    4The one who says“I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

    5But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

  • Gen 4:8
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    8Cain said to his brother Abel,“Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

  • Lev 19:17
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    17You must not hate your brother in your heart. You must surely reprove your fellow citizen so that you do not incur sin on account of him.

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    23Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.

    24And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.

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    2By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

  • John 3:15
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    15so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”

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    3For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

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    17You must not murder.

  • Num 35:21
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    21or with enmity he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death, for he is a murderer. The avenger of blood must kill the murderer when he meets him.