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1 John 3:13 KJV
1 John · chapter 3 · verse 13
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.1 John 3:13 · King James Version
1 John 3:13 in context
11For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
12Not 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.
13Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
14We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
15Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
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Key words (Strong's)
- brethrenadelphosa brother, whether born of the same two parents or only of the same father or mother…G80 →
- Marvelthaumazōto wonder, wonder at, marvel, to be wondered at, to be had in admirationG2296 →
- worldkosmosan apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government, ornament…G2889 →
- hatemiseōto hate, pursue with hatred, detest, to be hated, detestedG3404 →
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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, or antiquity, or primariness of the injunction relating thereto: And this is the message (the errand or charge) which you heard…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-13