1 John 3:13

Marvel not, my brothers, if the world hates you.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

In Context

12Not as Cain. He was of the wicked, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were wrong, and his brother's right.

14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who is not loving the brother abides in death.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:22And ye will be hated by all men because of my name, but he who endures to the end, this man will be saved.

Mark 13:13And ye will be hated by all men because of my name, but he who endures to the end, this man will be saved.

Luke 21:17And ye will be hated by all men because of my name.

John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

John 16:2They will make you excommunicated from the synagogues. But the hour comes that every man who kills you will presume to be offering service to God.

John 17:14I have given them thy word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

Matthew Henry on 1 John 3:12-14

Brotherly Love. ( a. d. 80.) 11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. 13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. The apostle, having intimated that one mark of the devil's children is hatred of the brethren, takes occasion thence, I. To recommend fraternal Christian love, and that from the excellence,… Read the whole commentary →

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