1 John 3:14
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
13Marvel not, brethren, if the world hateth you.
Cross References
Psalms 16:3As for the saints that are in the earth, they are the excellent in whom is all my delight.
Matthew 25:40And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto me.
Luke 15:24for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
John 5:24Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life.
John 15:12This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.
2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
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 →