1 John 3:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

1 John 3:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 15:18-19
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. …
John 17:14
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Luke 21:17
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
James 4:4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
2 Timothy 3:12
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Anger Bigotry Commandments Cruelty Discipleship Disobedience to God

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-13)

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 from the beginning (this came among the principal parts of practical Christianity)…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. Marvel not--The marvel would be if the world loved you. the world--of whom Cain is the representative (1Jo 3:12). hate you--as Cain hated even his own brother, and that to the extent of murdering him. The world feels its bad works tacitly reproved by your good works.