1 John 3:13
Marueile not, my brethren, though this world hate you.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 10:22And yee shall be hated of all men for my Name: but he that endureth to the end, he shall be saued.
Mark 13:13And ye shall be hated of all men for my Names sake: but whosoeuer shall endure vnto the end, he shalbe saued.
Luke 21:17And ye shall bee hated of all men for my Names sake.
John 7:7The world can not hate you: but me it hateth, because I testifie of it, that the workes thereof are euill.
John 16:2They shall excommunicate you: yea, the time shall come, that whosoeuer killeth you, will thinke that he doeth God seruice.
John 17:14I haue giuen 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 →