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 # Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer
 
-John speaks of a person who hates another believer as if he were a murderer. Alternate translation: "Whoever hates another believer is as guilty as someone who kills a person"
+"Whoever hates another believer is as guilty as someone who kills a person"
 
 # no murderer has eternal life residing in 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" 
+"a murderer does not have the power of spiritual life"