We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not [his] brother abideth in death.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Nous savons que nous sommes passés de la mort à la vie, parce que nous aimons les frères. Celui qui n'aime pas demeure dans la mort.
KJV
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not [his] brother abideth in death.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
oral virtues are not connected with charity, and can be without it. On the contrary, It is written ( 1 Jn. 3:14 ): "He that loveth not, abideth in death." Now the spiritual life is perfected by the virtues, since it is "by them" that "we lead a good life," as Augustine states (De…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
ns the body. Therefore God quickens the soul by Himself. But He quickens it by charity, according to 1 Jn. 3:14 : "We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren." Therefore God is charity itself. Objection 3: Further, no created thing is of infinite…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
spect of its object is contrary to charity, whence the soul derives its spiritual life, according to 1 Jn. 3:14 : "We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren." Now the object both of charity and of envy is our neighbor's good, but by contrary mov…
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