diff --git a/1jn/03/15.md b/1jn/03/15.md index 6f19e7c3c..01f5b7f09 100644 --- a/1jn/03/15.md +++ b/1jn/03/15.md @@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ John speaks of a person who hates another believer as if he were a murderer. Sin # no murderer has eternal life residing in him -"Eternal life" is something God gives believers after they die, but it is also the power God gives believers in this life to help them to stop sinning and to do what please him. Here eternal life is spoken of as if it were a person that could live in someone. Alternate translation: "a murderer does not have the power of spiritual life" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]]) +"Eternal life" does refer to believers living forever after they have died, but it is also the power that God gives believers in this life to help them to stop sinning and to do what please him. Here eternal life is spoken of as if it were a person that could live in someone. Alternate translation: "a murderer does not have the power of spiritual life" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])