Key Verse Spotlight
1 John 3:13 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.”
1 John 3:13
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. {message: or, commandment}
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.
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not {his} brother abideth in death.
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
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