Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him — the equation of hatred with murder (phoneus) intensifies the sin's gravity. The murderer lacks eternal life (zōē aionios) abiding within him; the life-giving Spirit cannot indwell one consumed by hatred. Hatred severs the source of eternal life.

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