1 John 3:14-15

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 John 3:11-24

God’s children love one another (3:11-24)Since Christians do what is right and refuse what is wrong, their lives will be characterized by love. But the world will not respond kindly to their goodness, just as Cain did not respond kindly to Abel’s (11-12). When sinners are shamed by the uprightness of others, the outcome usually is that they hate them for it (13). Hate produces murder, and murder is obviously not a characteristic of the Christian (14-15).Those who have genuine love, instead of... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 John 3:14

passed . Greek. metabaino. Compare John 6:24 (same word). from . App-104 . unto . App-104 . life . App-170 . his brother . The texts omit. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 John 3:15

murderer . Greek. anthropoktonos, manslayer. Only here and John 8:44 . no = not (1 John 3:1 ) any. eternal . App-151 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 John 3:14

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.We know that we have passed out of death into life ... The true test of Christian achievement is not world opinion, but holy love within the heart. "Passed out of" is from a word that means, "passing from one form of government to another, and was used of transition from one place to another."[36] It is akin to the word "migrated."Death into life ... This strongly reflects the... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 John 3:15

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.John here skipped a point or two in his argument, but it is nevertheless evident anyway. "His full argument is: where love is not, there is hatred; where hatred is, there is murder; where murder, there can be no eternal life."[37] An argument like this is squarely founded upon the teachings of the Master who equated the deprecatory word, the contemptuous epithet, and anger in the heart... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 John 3:14

1 John 3:14. We know that we have passed from death, &c.— This is said even of the best men; which implies, by a strong consequence, that they are, as it were, born in the land and territories of death; or that the gospel finds them in such a condition, as to be liable to condemnation and destruction; to the execution of a capital sentence. Oblique expressions of this sort speak such truths as these, in a manner peculiarly convincing and affecting. Here is a third reason assigned for loving... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 John 3:15

1 John 3:15. 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 commandment murder is forbidden; but the commandments are so to be interpreted, that every tendency towards the crime condemned, is in its proportion forbidden, as one step towards the crime, or one degree of it. Murderers, and all sinners, are condemned to the second death: not but that... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 John 3:14

14. We—emphatical; hated though we be by the world, we know what the world knows not. know—as an assured fact. passed—changed our state. Colossians 1:13, "from the power of darkness . . . translated into the kingdom of His dear Son." from death unto life—literally, "out of the death (which enthrals the unregenerate) into the life (of the regenerate)." A palpable coincidence of language and thought, the beloved disciple adopting his Lord's words. because we love the brethren—the ground, not of... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 John 3:15

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... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 John 3:10-15

1. What Love Is Not 3:10b-15John began this part of his argument by explaining what love is not. read more

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