1 John 3:13

Do not be amazed, my brothers, if the world hates you.

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

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12We should not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil and his brother's righteous.

14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:22You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But whoever endures to the end, that person will be saved.

Mark 13:13You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But whoever endures to the end, that person will be saved.

Luke 21:17You will be hated by everyone because of my name.

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

John 16:2They will throw you out of the synagogues. But the hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think that he is offering a service to God.

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