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1 John 3:15

1 John 3:15 (WEB)

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

Catechism · 1

  • §1033Article 12 · "I Believe in Life Everlasting"Read at vatican.va

    “Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Jn 3:14-15.

Fathers and councils · 14

Augustine of Hippo

Leo the Great

  • “And since it is written: “he that hateth his brother is a murderer:” he has actually carried out what he was said already to have done in hate, as if he had never heard of this nor of that which the Lord says, “learn of Me;…” — editor's note: 1 John iii. 15.

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Jerome

Tertullian

  • “…murder to consist even in a word of curse or of reproach, and in every impulse of anger, and in the neglect of charity toward a brother just as John teaches, that he who hates his brother is a murderer.” — editor's note: 1 John. iii. 15.

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Cyprian of Carthage

John Cassian

  • “For “whosoever is angry with his brother, is in danger of the judgment;” and “whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer;” viz., because in his heart he desires to kill him, whose blood we know that he has certainly not shed among men with his own hand or with a weapon; yet, owing…” — editor's note: 1 John iii. 15.

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Clement of Alexandria

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