1 John 3:13

Do not wonder, brethren, if the world hate you.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12not as Cain was of the wicked one, and slew his brother; and on account of what slew he him? because his works were wicked, and those of his brother righteous.

14*We* know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love [his] brother abides in death.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:22and ye shall be hated of all on account of my name. But he that has endured to [the] end, *he* shall be saved.

Mark 13:13And ye will be hated of all on account of my name; but he that has endured to the end, *he* shall be saved.

Luke 21:17and ye will be hated of all for my name's sake.

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

John 16:2They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming that every one who kills you will think to render service to God;

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