1 John 3:13

So don't be surprised, my friends, if this world hates you!

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

12We cannot be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one, and murdered his brother. Why did he murder him? Because Cain did what was evil, while his brother did what was right.

14The reason we know that we have changed from death to life is because we love our Christian brothers and sisters. Anyone who doesn't love remains dead.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:22Everyone will hate you because you follow me, but those who endure until the end will be saved.

Mark 13:13You will be hated by everyone because of me, but whoever endures until the end will be saved.

Luke 21:17Everyone will hate you because of me.

John 7:7The world has no reason to hate you, but it does hate me, because I make it clear that its ways are evil.

John 16:2They will expel you from the synagogues—in fact the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing God a service.

John 17:14I gave them your message, and the world hated them because they are not of the world, just as I'm 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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