1 John 3:13

Wonder not, my brethren, if the world hates you.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and slew his brother: and for what reason did he slay him? because his own works were evil, and his brother’s, righteous.

14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren: he that loves not his brother, abides in death.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:22And you will be hated by all men on my account: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.

Mark 13:13and you will be hated by all on my account. But he that endures to the end shall be saved.

Luke 21:17and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake.

John 7:7The world can not hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.

John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues; indeed, the time is coming, when he that kills you, will think that he is offering service to God.

John 17:14I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even 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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