1 John 3:14
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren: he that loves not his brother, abides in death.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
13Wonder not, my brethren, if the world hates you.
Cross References
Matthew 25:40And the King will answer and say to them: Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.
Luke 15:24for this my son was dead, and is alive again: he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
John 5:24Verily, verily I say to you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has eternal life, and comes not into condemnation, but has passed from death into life.
John 15:12This is my commandment: That you love one another, as I have loved you.
2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if our earthly house, which is but a tent, should be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with 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 →