1 John 3:13

Do not be suprised, friends, if the world hates you.

Open English Bible (UK)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his actions were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love each other. The person who does not love remains in a state of death.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:22and you will be hated by everyone because of me. Yet the person who endures to the end will be saved.

Mark 13:13and you will be hated by everyone because of me. Yet the person who endures to the end will be saved.

Luke 21:17and you will be hated by everyone because of me my name.

John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me, because I testify that its ways are evil.

John 16:2They will expel you from their synagogues; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that they are making an offering to God.

John 17:14I have given them your message; and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to 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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