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1 John 3:13

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Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
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  1. John 15:18–19Rank 1 from verse 13
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    18If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

    19If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

  2. John 17:14Rank 2 from verse 13
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    14I 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.

  3. Luke 21:17Rank 3 from verse 13
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    17And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.

  4. 2 Timothy 3:12Rank 4 from verse 13
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    12Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

  5. James 4:4Rank 5 from verse 13
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    4Ye 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.

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1 John 3:13

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brethren

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1. Persons of the same people, tribe, community, or shared service who are regarded or addressed as brothers. 2. Persons regarded as brothers by reason of faith or another spiritual relation. 3. Male siblings or other male relatives.

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hate

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To feel strong dislike, aversion, or enmity toward; in comparisons, to love less.

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you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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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.

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14We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

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