We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 John 3:14 in context
1 John 3:11–17
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For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another—
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unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
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Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
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We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.
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Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
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By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
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But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
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