1 John 3:15

Hating a fellow believer makes one a murderer at heart, and no murderer has eternal life. Hatred reveals a heart without true life.

Cross-references · 16

• Matt 5:21–22“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’
• Rev 21:8But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
• Prov 26:24–26A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.
• John 8:44You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
• Lev 19:16–18“‘You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. “‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
• Acts 23:14They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
• Jas 4:1–2Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
• Matt 5:28but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
• John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
• Mark 6:19Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t,
• Jas 1:15Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
• Gal 5:20–21idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
• Acts 23:12When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
• 2 Sam 13:22–28Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
• Gen 27:41Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
• 1 Pet 1:23having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

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