1 John 3:13

Do not wonder, Brothers, if the world hates you.

Twentieth Century New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? It was because his life was bad while his brother’s was good.

14We know that we have passed out of Death into Life, because we love our Brothers. The man who does not love remains in a state of Death.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:22and you will be hated by every one on account of my Name. Yet the man that endures to the end shall be saved.

Mark 13:13and you will be hated by every one on account of my Name. Yet the man that endures to the end shall be saved.

Luke 21:17and you will be hated by every one on account of my Name.

John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me, because I testify that its ways are evil.

John 16:2They will expel you from their Synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will think that he is making an offering to God.

John 17:14I have given them thy Message; and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to 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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