Thematic Bible: Those that hate their brother

The person who claims to be living in [harmony with] the light [i.e., by obeying God's truth], and [yet] hates his brother is still [living] in the darkness [of sin]. [However], the person who loves his brother continues to live in [harmony with] the light [of God's truth], and such a person is not the cause of others stumbling [over his example]. But the person who hates his brother is in the darkness [of sin] and he lives in [harmony with] that darkness, and he does not know where he is heading, because the darkness [of sin] has blinded his eyes [to his spiritual condition].

[For] we [can] know that we have passed out of [the realm of spiritual] death and into [spiritual] life, because we [show] love for the brothers [and sisters]. The person who does not love [them] continues to be [spiritually] dead. Every person who hates his brother is a murderer [in God's sight]; and you [surely] know that no murderer has [the hope of] never ending life remaining in his heart.

If a person says, "I love God," yet [in reality] hates his brother, he is a liar. For the person who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot [possibly] love God, whom he has never seen. Verse ConceptsLiesLoveHatredLove To Others, Evidence OfNot Seeing GodNot Loving GodSeeing PeopleThose Who Are LiarsUnlovingBrotherhood Of ManLove to ChristLoving YourselfHateSiblingsGod's Love For UsLove And FamilyTrue LoveBeing LovedLoving One AnotherBrothers LoveThose Loving GodSibling Loveloving