1 John 3:15

Tree of Life Version

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer—and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

Cross References

Genesis 27:41

So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, “Let the time for mourning my father draw near, so that I can kill my brother Jacob!”

Matthew 5:28

But I tell you that everyone who looks upon a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Mark 6:19

Now Herodias had a grudge against John and wanted to kill him, but she wasn’t able.

John 4:14

But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never be thirsty. The water that I give him will become a fountain of water within him, springing up to eternal life!”

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks lies he is just being himself—for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Acts 23:12

When it was day, the Judean leaders formed a conspiracy. They bound themselves by an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.

Acts 23:14

They went to the ruling kohanim and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves with a solemn oath to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

Deuteronomy 19:11

“But suppose someone hates his neighbor, waits in hiding for him, rises up against him, strikes him dead, then flees to one of these cities.

James 1:15

Then when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is full grown, it brings forth death.

1 Peter 1:23

You have been born again—not from perishable seed but imperishable—through the living and enduring word of God.

1 John 2:11

But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has made his eyes blind.

1 John 2:9

The one who says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in the darkness.

Revelation 21:8

But for the cowardly and faithless and detestable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars—their lot is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”