1 John 3:13

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

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12Not like Cain, who was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And why did he slay him, but because his own works were evil, and those of his brother righteous?

14We know that we have turned from death unto life, by this, that we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother, remaineth in death.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:22And ye shall be hated by every one, on account of my name. But he that shall endure to the end, shall have life.

Mark 13:13And ye will be hated of every man, on account of my name. But whoever shall persevere to the end, shall live.

Luke 21:17And ye will be hated by every one, on account of my name.

John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but me it hateth; because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.

John 16:2For they will eject you from their synagogues; and the hour will come, that whoever shall kill you, will suppose that he presenteth an offering to God.

John 17:14I have given them thy word: and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even 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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