Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 John 3:15

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15. hateth —equivalent to "loveth not" ( 1 John 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, 1 John 3:14- : desires us to lay down our lives for the brethren; duels require one (awful to say!) to risk his own life, rather than not deprive another of life" [BENGEL]. God regards the inward disposition as tantamount to the outward act which would flow from it. Whomsoever one hates, one wishes to be dead. hath —Such a one still "abideth in death." It is not his future state, but his present, which is referred to. He who hates (that is, loveth not) his brother ( 1 John 3:14 ), cannot in this his present state have eternal life abiding in him. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-16" class="com-number"

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