15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.
1 John 3:15
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1 John 4:19–21
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35 For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD. 36 But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
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