1 John 3:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

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 brethren; a thing so contrary to the Divine life, nature, and image, and which makes the person affected with it, in the temper and habit of his mind, a very murderer.

1 John 3:15

15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.