1 John 3:14
We 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.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
13Marvel not, my brothers, if the world hates you.
Cross References
Psalms 16:3As for the sanctified who are in the earth, they are the excellent in whom is all my delight.
Matthew 25:40And having answered, the King will say to them, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brothers, the least, ye did it to me.
Luke 15:24because this my son was dead, and became alive again. And he was lost, and is found. And they began to be cheerful.
John 5:24Truly, truly, I say to you, that he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life. And he does not come into condemnation, but has passed from death into life.
John 15:12This is my commandment, that ye love each other, just as I have loved you.
2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if the earthly house of our tent were destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.
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 →