1 John 3:14
We know that we are translated from death vnto life, because we loue the brethren: he that loueth not his brother, abideth in death.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
13Marueile not, my brethren, though this world hate you.
Cross References
Psalms 16:3But to the Saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent: all my delite is in them.
Matthew 25:40And the King shall answere, and say vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, in as much as ye haue done it vnto one of the least of these my brethre, ye haue done it to me.
Luke 15:24For this my sonne was dead, and is aliue againe: and he was lost, but he is found. And they began to be merie.
John 5:24Verely, verely I say vnto you, he that heareth my worde, and beleeueth him that sent me, hath euerlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but hath passed from death vnto life.
John 15:12This is my commandement, that ye loue one another, as I haue loued you.
2 Corinthians 5:1For we knowe that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be destroyed, we haue a building giuen of God, that is, an house not made with handes, but eternall in the heauens.
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 →