1 John 3:13

Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12We are not to resemble Cain, who was a child of the Evil one and killed his own brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's actions righteous.

14As for us, we know that we have already passed out of death into Life--because we love our brother men. He who is destitute of love continues dead.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:22And you will be objects of universal hatred because you are called by my name; but he who holds out to the End--he will be saved.

Mark 13:13You will be objects of universal hatred because you are called by my name, but those who stand firm to the End will be saved.

Luke 21:17You will be the objects of universal hatred because you are called by my name;

John 7:7It is impossible for the world to hate you; but me it does hate, because I give testimony concerning it that its conduct is evil.

John 16:2You will be excluded from the synagogues; nay more, the time is coming when any one who has murdered one of you will suppose he is offering service to God.

John 17:14I have given them Thy Message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just 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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