“ Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. ”
Marvel not - Do not think it so unusual, or so little to be expected, as to excite astonishment. If the world hate you - The emphasis here is to be placed on the word “you.” The apostle had j...
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Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. Marvel not - if the world hate you - Expect no better treatment from unconverted Jews and Gentiles than Abel received from his wicked and cruel brother...
If the world hate you— By the world, understand the unbelieving Jews and Gentiles. See ch. 1 John 5:19 . The world is here set in opposition to the Christian brethren. This verse contains an i...
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. Marvel not. The marvel would be if the world loved you. The world - whom Cain represents ( 1 John 3:12 ). Hate you - as Cain hated his...
The Righteousness of God and the Duties and Privileges of Sonship 1. The sons of God] RV 'children of God,' adding the words, 'and such we are.' The word translated 'children' here is characteri...
(4) BROTHERLY LOVE THE NECESSARY FLOWER OF THE DIVINE LOVE IN THE DIVINE BIRTH ( 1 John 3:11-18 ). — In 1 John 2:10 St. John showed the necessary connection between righteousness and love; there is...
Loving in Deed and in Truth 1 John 3:13-24 Love to the brethren is a sign that we have been born into the family. We may not like them all, yet we can love them. If we love, we live; and if...
The letter now passed to a discussion of the fellowship of the saints with God as love. The hope born of love will have as its inevitable result the purification of those possessing it. The apostle s...
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. (14) We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. (15) Whosoever ha...
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. By "the world" is meant the inhabitants of the world, the wicked part of them; these hate the saints, though without a cause, any just cause, and for...
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. Ver. 13. Marvel not, my brethren ] Since it was so from the beginning, and the very first man that died, died for religion; so early came martyrdom...
For , &c. As if he had said, I have just declared that the want of brotherly love is a proof that a man is not of God, and a little consideration may convince you of the truth of the assertion:...
This chapter continues the subject introduced in ch.2:28. Verse 29 has shown that righteousness is an absolute requirement. It is indeed a solid, sound basis for the precious bestowal of the love of...
Brotherly Love. A. D. 80. 11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that...
This being so devilish a quality, and the world so generally under his power, as the god of it, 2 Corinthians 4:4 , it is not to be thought strange, that good men should be the marks and designe...
The Essential Nature of Christian Love As A Test Of Faithfulness to God ( 1 John 3:11-15 ). In all this we must keep in mind that the emphasis is on loving our brothers who are true to the Gospel,...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES 1 John 3:13 . World hate yon .—The “world” includes all who are not actuated by the supreme motive, love to God. For “hate” read “hateth” ( John 15:18 ). 1 John 3...
world Greek, "kosmos", means "world-system". ( 1 John 4:3-5 ); ( John 7:7 ). ( See Scofield) - ( Revelation 13:8 ).
I have read this chapter many times in your hearing, but we cannot read it too often, for it is full of the deepest and most important instruction. God grant that fresh light from above may shine upo...
1 John 3:1 . That we should be called the sons of God! The character of the favoured race is defined in the preseding verses: they keep the commandments of God: 1 John 3:3 . They abide in Christ...
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you The world’s hatred--God’s love The world’s hatred; God’s love; these are what are here contrasted. And yet there is one point at least of partia...
EXPOSITION 1 John 3:1 to 1 John 5:12 3. SECOND MAIN DIVISION . God is Love. 1 John 3:1-62 (1) The evidence of sonship. Righteousness. 1 John 3:1-62 The Divine bi...
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
2 Timothy 3:12 ; Acts 3:12 ; Ecclesiastes 5:8 ; James 4:4 ; John 15:18 ; John 15:19 ; John 16:2 ; John 16:33 ; John 17:14 ; John 3:7 ; John 7:7 ; Luke 21:17 ; Luke 6:22 ; Mark 13:13 ;...
Children of God 1 John 3:1-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS What a wonderful truth is this: "Now are we the sons of God." What! We who were once children of darkness, are now the children of light; we wh...
Marvel not if the world hate you — For the same cause.