1 John 3:14
As 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.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
13Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you.
Cross References
Matthew 25:40"But the King will answer them, "`In solemn truth I tell you that in so far as you rendered such services to one of the humblest of these my brethren, you rendered them to myself.'
Luke 15:24for my son here was dead and has come to life again: he was lost and has been found.' "And they began to be merry.
John 5:24"In most solemn truth I tell you that he who listens to my teaching and believes Him who sent me, has the Life of the Ages, and does not come under judgement, but has passed over out of death into Life.
John 15:12This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I have loved you.
2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if this poor tent, our earthly house, is taken down, we have in Heaven a building which God has provided, a house not built by human hands, but eternal.
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 →