1 John 3:13

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

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12Not as Koen, who was from the Evil, and killed his brother. And on what account killed he him? unless that his own works were evil and his brother's righteous.

14We know that we have passed from death unto life, by this, that we love our brethren. He who loveth not his brother, in death continueth.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:22And you shall be abhorred by all men on account of my name: but he who shall persevere until the end, he shall be saved.

Mark 13:13and you will be hated by all men on account of my name: but he who shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved.

Luke 21:17And you will be hated of all men on account of my name:

John 7:7The world cannot hate you: but me it hateth, because I bear witness against it that the works of it are evil.

John 16:2They shall cast you out from their synagogues; and the hour cometh when every one who shall kill you will think that a sacrifice he offereth unto Aloha.

John 17:14I have given them thy word, and the world hath 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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