A murderer
(ανθρωποκτονος). Old compound (Euripides) from ανθρωπος (man) and κτεινω (to kill), a man-killer, in N.T. only here and John 8:44 (of Satan).No
(πασ--ου). According to current Hebraistic idiom= ουδεις as in 1 John 2:19; 1 John 2:21.Abiding
(μενουσαν). Present active feminine accusative predicate participle of μενω, "a continuous power and a communicated gift" (Westcott).
Verse 15. _WHOSOEVER HATETH HIS BROTHER IS A MURDERER_] He has the same principle in him which was in Cain, and it may lead to the same consequences. _NO MURDERER HATH ETERNAL LIFE_] Eternal life sp...
WHOSOEVER HATETH HIS BROTHER IS A MURDERER ... - That is, he has the spirit of a murderer; he has that which, if it were acted out, would lead him to commit murder, as it did Cain. The private malice,...
IV. RIGHTEOUSNESS AND LOVE AS MANIFESTED BY THE CHILDREN OF GOD Chapter S 2:28-3:18 __ 1. The children of God and their coming manifestation (1 John 2:28 -1 John 3:3) 2. Sin and the new nature (1...
The hatred of the world is to be expected, but within the Christian brotherhood there must be love, manifesting itself in deeds of self-sacrifice in imitation of Christ's love. If we possess this spir...
In this the children of God and the children of the devil are made plain; anyone who does not do righteousness is not of God, and neither is he who does not love his brother, because the message that...
REMEMBER THE PRIVILEGES OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (1 John 3:1-2)...
MURDERER. Greek. _anthropoktonos,_ manslayer. Only here and John 8:44. NO. not (1 John 3:1) any. ETERNAL. App-151....
Love and Hate: Life and Death _Marvel not, my brethren_ Comp. John 5:28; John 3:7. The antagonism between the light and the darkness, between God and the evil one, between righteousness and unrighteou...
_Whosoever hateth his brother_ Or, EVERY ONE THAT _hateth his brother_: see on 1 John 3:4. Quite as a matter of course S. John passes from not loving to hating. The crisis caused in the world by the c...
1 John 2:29 to 1 John 5:12. God is Love There seems to be no serious break in the Epistle from this point onwards until we reach the concluding verses which form a sort of summary (1 John 5:13-21). T...
15. [629][630][631] have ἑαυτῷ for ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ι or ΑὙΤΩ͂Ι ([632][633][634]). The reading remains doubtful. [629] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the monastery of S. Catherine on Mount Sin...
1 John 2:29 to 1 John 5:12. GOD IS LOVE There seems to be no serious break in the Epistle from this point onwards until we reach the concluding verses which form a sort of summary (1 John 5:13-21). Th...
13–24. LOVE AND HATE: LIFE AND DEATH ΜῊ ΘΑΥΜΆΖΕΤΕ. Comp. John 5:28, and contrast 1 John 3:7. The antagonism between the light and the darkness, between God and the evil one, between righteousness and...
ΜΙΣΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΜΙΣΈΩ (G341) ненавидеть, ΆΝΘΡΩΠΟΚΤΌΝΟΣ (G168) тот, кто убивает человека, убийца, ΟΪΔΑΤΕ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΟΙΔΑ (G1492) знать. Def. perf. со значением _praes._ ΈΧΕΙ _p...
WHOSOEVER HATETH HIS BROTHER, IS A MURDERER:— That is, in the temper and disposition of his mind; or, hatred is one step towards murder. See Matthew 5:21; Matthew 22:27; Matthew 28:20. Inthe 6th comma...
CHAPTER X _DIVINE SONSHIP PROVEN BY ACTIVE LOVE_ (The Second Test. The Second Time) 1 John 3:11-24 A. _The Text_ For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one...
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. HATETH - "loveth not," : there is no medium. 'Love and hatred, like light and darkness, l...
VERSE 15. WHOSOEVER HATETH HIS BROTHER IS A MURDERER. One who hates his brother is in a state or condition, under slight provocation influenced by his passion of hate, to slay him. His hatred is the...
8 The title..Adversary" has far more aptness than is at first apparent. Satan is known to us only through his word He never appears otherwise than as the evil creature indicated by his titles. From hi...
3:15 know (a-12) _ Oida_ , as ch. 2.29....
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD AND THE DUTIES AND PRIVILEGES OF SONSHIP 1. The sons of God] RV 'children of God,' adding the words, 'and _such_ we are.' The word translated 'children' here is characteristi...
HOW CAN I BE SURE? 1 JOHN _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 3 THE CHILDREN OF GOD DO THE RIGHT THINGS (1 JOHN 3:1-10) V1 See what great love the *Father has given to us! He has called us children of God....
(4) BROTHERLY LOVE THE NECESSARY FLOWER OF THE DIVINE LOVE IN THE DIVINE BIRTH (1 John 3:11). — In 1 John 2:10 St. John showed the necessary connection between righteousness and love; there is no cont...
An echo of the teaching of Jesus. See Matthew 5:21-22 and _cf._ Smith, _The Days of His Flesh_, pp. 96 98....
The Secret of Assurance. “Wonder not, brethren, if the world hateth you. _We_ know that we have migrated out of the domain of death into the domain of life, because we love the brethren. He that lovet...
LOVING IN DEED AND IN TRUTH 1 John 3:13 Love to the brethren is a sign that we have been born into the family. We may not _like_ them all, yet we can _love_ them. If we love, we live; and if we live...
The letter now passed to a discussion of the fellowship of the saints with God as love. The hope born of love will have as its inevitable result the purification of those possessing it. The apostle sh...
THE DANGER OF HATRED So, it should come as no surprise when the world hates us when we do things pleasing to God (John 15:18-20). Good works expose evil works and their reward stirs envy in the hearts...
(15) Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. (15) A confirmation: Whoever is a murderer, is in eternal death: he who hates his broth...
_We know that we have passed from death to life; i.e. from the death of sin to the life of grace: we know it by a moral certainty, when we experience in our heart a love of our neighbour. --- He that...
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. (14) We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. (15) Whosoever hat...
_THE SIN OF HATRED_ ‘Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.’ 1 John 3:15 To hate sin is right. Sin is that which God hates. But God, Who hates the sin, loves the sinner; and even when He punis...
15_Is a murderer _To stimulate us still more to love, he shews how detestable before God is hatred. There is no one who dreads not a murderer; nay, we all execrate the very name. But the Apostle decla...
Now to say that we are born of Him is to say that we are children of God. [13] What a love is that which the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children! [14] Therefore the world know...
WHOSOEVER HATETH HIS BROTHER IS A MURDERER,.... A soul murderer, as the Ethiopic version renders it; not only of himself, for every sinner, by sinning, wrongs and destroys his own soul; but of his bro...
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. Ver. 15. _Whosoever hateth his brother_] Not to love then is to hate, as not to save a man i...
He, I have just said, who loveth not his brother, abideth in death; is void of the life of God: for _whosoever hateth his brother_ And there is no medium between loving and hating him; _is_ In God's a...
IS A MURDERER; in heart; he cherishes the feelings from which the outward act of murder proceeds. Love to real Christians on account of their religion, is evidence of love to Christ and acceptance wit...
WHOSOEVER HATETH HIS BROTHER IS A MURDERER; AND YE KNOW THAT NO MURDERER HATH ETERNAL LIFE ABIDING IN HIM....
True brotherly love:...
This chapter continues the subject introduced in ch.2:28. Verse 29 has shown that righteousness is an absolute requirement. It is indeed a solid, sound basis for the precious bestowal of the love of t...
11-15 We should love the Lord Jesus, value his love, and therefore love all our brethren in Christ. This love is the special fruit of our faith, and a certain sign of our being born again. But none w...
That life into which the regenerate are begotten, is nothing else than the beginning or first principle of eternal life, 1 THESSALONIANS 4:14, whereof they cannot but be destitute who hate their breth...
Tertullian On Idolatry 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,[8] Cyprian Treatise IV On the Lord'...
1 John 3:15 Whoever G3956 hates G3404 (G5723) his G846 brother G80 is G2076 (G5748) murderer G443 and...
‘Marvel not, brethren, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love dwells in death. Whoever hates his brother is a mu...
THE ESSENTIAL NATURE OF CHRISTIAN LOVE AS A TEST OF FAITHFULNESS TO GOD (1 JOHN 3:11). In all this we must keep in mind that the emphasis is on loving our brothers who are true to the Gospel, those wh...
THE CENTRALITY OF CHRISTIAN LOVE (1 JOHN 3:11 TO 1 JOHN 4:21). The reference to loving one's brother, deliberately added almost as an appendage in 1 John 3:10 in order to introduce the next section, n...
1 John 3:13-15. Cain becomes ‘the world,' and Abel ‘you;' the emphasis resting on these two words. 1 John 3:14. There is no exhortation in this. Faithful to the thought of the great message, the apost...
The apostle now introduces a new order of thought, governed by the idea of regeneration as the gift of life in Christ to individual man. He first (down to chap. 1 John 3:3) dilates on its glory as a b...
1 John 3:15 The Peril of Unlawful Venture. I. Self-control is a thing which we can perfectly well understand in its effects, in its sources, perhaps, not so well. In frail, unassisted man, self-contr...
1 John 3:10. In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. For this is the message th...
1 John 3:1. _Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God:_ Behold it, wonder at it, and never cease to admire it. Is it not one of the great...
1 John 3:1. _Behold,_ For there is no greater wonder out of heaven than this: «Behold,» 1 John 3:1. _What manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: t...
I have read this chapter many times in your hearing, but we cannot read it too often, for it is full of the deepest and most important instruction. God grant that fresh light from above may shine upon...
CONTENTS: God's love magnified and the believer exhorted to holiness. Brotherly love urged. How our hearts may be assured before God. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Satan, Cain, John. CONCLUSION: It is a w...
1 John 3:1. _That we should be called the sons of God!_ The character of the favoured race is defined in the preseding verses: they keep the commandments of God: 1 John 3:3. They abide in Christ by wo...
WHOEVER HATES. "As a plant cannot be both growing and dying at the same time, so a Christian cannot be both loving and hating. When the _light_ came into the _world,_ it caused a _crisis!_ There is no...
_Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him _ SIN MEASURED BY THE DISPOSITION, NOT BY THE ACT These are harsh words, some will say, and...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 3:15 IS A MURDERER. John echoes Jesus’ teaching (Matthew 5:22, Matthew 5:
CHAPTER 3 VER. 1. _Behold what great love the Father hath bestowed on us_ (unworthy, enemies and sinners as we are), _that we should be called, and be the sons of God._ Love, actively, His wondrous lo...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 3:13. WORLD HATE YON.—The “world” includes all who are not actuated by the supreme motive, love to God. For “hate” read “hateth” (John 15:18). 1 John 3:14. FROM...
EXPOSITION 1 JOHN 3:1 TO 1 JOHN 5:12 3. SECOND MAIN DIVISION. _God is Love._ 1 JOHN 3:1
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God (1 John 3:1): I love that verse. Behold, what manner of love God has bestowed upon you, that you sh...
1 Peter 1:23; 2 Samuel 13:22; Acts 23:12; Acts 23:14; Galatians 5:21
Murderer [α θ ρ ω π ο κ τ ο ν ο ς]. Manslayer. Only here and John 8:44, of the devil. Hath eternal life, etc. The contrast is suggestive between the sentiment embodied in this statement and that of Pa...
CHILDREN OF GOD 1 John 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS What a wonderful truth is this: "Now are we the sons of God." What! We who were once children of darkness, are now the children of light; we who were c...
He, I say, abideth in spiritual death, is void of the life of God. For whosoever hateth his brother, and there is no medium between loving and hating him, is, in God's account, a murderer: every degre...
Observe here, 1. The nature of the sin condemned, it is. secret sin of the heart, not an open sin of the life; he that HATETH HIS BROTHER, that is, in his heart, IS. MURDERER, though he doth not smite...