17 (A)‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. (B)You shall surely [a]rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 19:17 reprove

18 (A)You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, (B)but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

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(A)He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now.

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11 But he who (A)hates his brother is in darkness and (B)walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

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The Imperative of Love(A)

10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

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12 not as (A)Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.

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15 (A)Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that (B)no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

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