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
“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
“Lest ye should think it a light matter, brethren, to hate, or, not to love, hear what follows: “Every one that hateth his brother, is a murderer.”” — editor's note: 1 John iii. 15.
Read the whole comment“Hast thou not heard above in this very epistle, “He that hateth his brother is a murderer”?” — editor's note: 1 John iii. 15.
Read the whole comment“Tremble then at least when it is said, “Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.”” — editor's note: 1 John iii. 15.
Read the whole comment“Whereas of the other it is said, “Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.”” — editor's note: 1 John iii. 15.
Read the whole comment“Listen to the Apostle John: “He who hateth his brother is a murderer.”” — editor's note: 1 John iii. 15.
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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
“The apostle and evangelist John rightly says, in his first epistle, that “whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.”” — editor's note: 1 Joh. iii. 15.
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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
“For that he who is jealous of his brother, and has him in hatred, is bound by the guilt of homicide, the Apostle John declares in his epistle, saying, “Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer hath life abiding in him.”” — editor's note: 1 John iii. 15.
Read the whole comment“…for the name of Christ, shall not be able to escape the crime of fraternal dissension, because, as it is written, “He who hateth his brother is a murderer,” and no murderer attains to the kingdom of heaven, nor does he live with God.” — editor's note: 1 John iii. 15.
Read the whole comment“For he who hateth his brother is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.”” — editor's note: 1 John iii. 10, 15.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, The Institutes VIII.20Book VIII
“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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Read the whole comment“Divinely and weightily John says, “He that loveth not his brother is a murderer,” the seed of Cain, a nursling of the devil.” — editor's note: 1 John iii. 14, 15.
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 2.
Cited together in Letters Letter 13.
Cited together in The Institutes VIII.20.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 2.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 2 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Letters Letter 13.
Cited together in Letters Letter 13.
Cited together in Letters Letter 13.
Cited together in Letters Letter 115.
Cited together in Letters Letter 115.
Cited together in Letters Letter 115.
Cited together in Letters Letter 115.
Cited together in Letters Letter 115.
Cited together in Letters Letter 13.
Cited together in Letters Letter 115.
Cited together in Letters Letter 13.