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 designed objects of the world's hatred.
1 JOHN 3:13 @kai.# mh, {C} It is difficult to decide whether kai, (which is read by a Cvid P Y 1739 itr, 65 syrp arm eth) was added by copyists in order to provide a closer connection with what goes...
Verse 13. _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. This was a lesson to the Church, pr...
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 just adver...
IV. RIGHTEOUSNESS AND LOVE AS MANIFESTED BY THE CHILDREN OF GOD Chapter S 2:28-3:18 __ 1. The children of God and their coming manifestation (1 John 2:28 -1 John 3:3) 2. Sin and the new nature (1...
REMEMBER THE PRIVILEGES OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (1 John 3:1-2)...
In this the children of God and the children of the devil are made plain; anyone who does not do righteousness is not of God, and neither is he who does not love his brother, because the message that...
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1 John 2:29 to 1 John 5:12. God is Love There seems to be no serious break in the Epistle from this point onwards until we reach the concluding verses which form a sort of summary (1 John 5:13-21). T...
Love and Hate: Life and Death _Marvel not, my brethren_ Comp. John 5:28; John 3:7. The antagonism between the light and the darkness, between God and the evil one, between righteousness and unrighteou...
13–24. LOVE AND HATE: LIFE AND DEATH ΜῊ ΘΑΥΜΆΖΕΤΕ. Comp. John 5:28, and contrast 1 John 3:7. The antagonism between the light and the darkness, between God and the evil one, between righteousness and...
13. After ἈΔΕΛΦΟΊ omit μου with [617][618][619][620] against [621][622]. [617] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the monastery of S. Catherine on Mount Sinai, and now at Petersburg. Al...
1 John 2:29 to 1 John 5:12. GOD IS LOVE There seems to be no serious break in the Epistle from this point onwards until we reach the concluding verses which form a sort of summary (1 John 5:13-21). Th...
ΘΑΥΜΆΖΕΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΘΑΥΜΆΖΩ (G2296) удивляться, поражаться, изумляться. _Aor._ подчеркивает непосредственное чувство, вызванное определенной мыслью или действием (_см._ 1 John 3:7). Здес...
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 infere...
CHAPTER X _DIVINE SONSHIP PROVEN BY ACTIVE LOVE_ (The Second Test. The Second Time) 1 John 3:11-24 A. _The Text_ For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one...
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 (). HATE YOU - as Cain hated his own brother, to the ex...
VERSE 13. MARVEL NOT, MY BRETHREN. The apostle here says: We should not marvel wonder --if we be hated by the world. While no reason is given, the former verse indicates the source of all hatred. The...
8 The title..Adversary" has far more aptness than is at first apparent. Satan is known to us only through his word He never appears otherwise than as the evil creature indicated by his titles. From hi...
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 characteristi...
HOW CAN I BE SURE? 1 JOHN _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 3 THE CHILDREN OF GOD DO THE RIGHT THINGS (1 JOHN 3:1-10) V1 See what great love the *Father has given to us! He has called us children of God....
(4) BROTHERLY LOVE THE NECESSARY FLOWER OF THE DIVINE LOVE IN THE DIVINE BIRTH (1 John 3:11). — In 1 John 2:10 St. John showed the necessary connection between righteousness and love; there is no cont...
It is natural that the world (see notes on 1 John 2:15; 1 John 3:1) should hate those whose lives contradict its maxims and condemn its practices. St. John frequently addresses his readers as τεκνία a...
The Secret of Assurance. “Wonder not, brethren, if the world hateth you. _We_ know that we have migrated out of the domain of death into the domain of life, because we love the brethren. He that lovet...
LOVING IN DEED AND IN TRUTH 1 John 3:13 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 we live...
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 sh...
THE DANGER OF HATRED So, it should come as no surprise when the world hates us when we do things pleasing to God (John 15:18-20). Good works expose evil works and their reward stirs envy in the hearts...
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 hat...
Now to say that we are born of Him is to say that we are children of God. [13] What a love is that which the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children! [14] Therefore the world know...
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 no...
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 in...
_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: for _...
MARVEL NOT-IF THE WORLD HATE YOU; because you are not of the world, and the world knows you not. Verse 1 John 3:1; JOHN 15:17-21....
True brotherly love:...
MARVEL NOT, MY BRETHREN, IF THE WORLD HATE YOU....
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 t...
11-15 We should love the Lord Jesus, value his love, and therefore love all our brethren in Christ. This love is the special fruit of our faith, and a certain sign of our being born again. But none w...
1 John 3:13 not G3361 marvel G2296 (G5720) my G3450 brethren G80 if G1487 world G2889 hates G3404 ...
‘Marvel not, brethren, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love dwells in death. Whoever hates his brother is a mu...
THE CENTRALITY OF CHRISTIAN LOVE (1 JOHN 3:11 TO 1 JOHN 4:21). The reference to loving one's brother, deliberately added almost as an appendage in 1 John 3:10 in order to introduce the next section, n...
THE ESSENTIAL NATURE OF CHRISTIAN LOVE AS A TEST OF FAITHFULNESS TO GOD (1 JOHN 3:11). In all this we must keep in mind that the emphasis is on loving our brothers who are true to the Gospel, those wh...
1 John 3:13-15. Cain becomes ‘the world,' and Abel ‘you;' the emphasis resting on these two words. 1 John 3:14. There is no exhortation in this. Faithful to the thought of the great message, the apost...
The apostle now introduces a new order of thought, governed by the idea of regeneration as the gift of life in Christ to individual man. He first (down to chap. 1 John 3:3) dilates on its glory as a b...
IF (ε). Common construction after θαυμαζω (wonder) rather than οτ (that, because). Present imperative here with μη means "cease wondering." Note μη θαυμασηις (do not begin to wonder) in John 3:6 (a...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "world-system". (1 John 4:3); (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 upon...
1 John 3:1. _Behold,_ For there is no greater wonder out of heaven than this: «Behold,» 1 John 3:1. _What manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: t...
1 John 3:1. _Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God:_ Behold it, wonder at it, and never cease to admire it. Is it not one of the great...
1 John 3:10. In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. For this is the message th...
CONTENTS: God's love magnified and the believer exhorted to holiness. Brotherly love urged. How our hearts may be assured before God. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Satan, Cain, John. CONCLUSION: It is a w...
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 by wo...
SO DO NOT BE SURPRISED. "The _world_ to which Cain belonged (1 John 2:15-17) still belongs to Satan. As Cain hated his righteous brother, so this same _world_ will hate you." Those who made a _habit_...
_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 partial si...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 3:13 DO NOT BE SURPRISED. Abel did the right thing and was strongly opposed (v. 1 John 3:12). John knows this happens in every age (see...
CHAPTER 3 VER. 1. _Behold what great love the Father hath bestowed on us_ (unworthy, enemies and sinners as we are), _that we should be called, and be the sons of God._ Love, actively, His wondrous lo...
_Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hall you._ This is an inference from the previous antithesis of the children of God, and the children of the devil. Our Lord alludes to the hatred of wicked men...
_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 3:14. FROM...
EXPOSITION 1 JOHN 3:1 TO 1 JOHN 5:12 3. SECOND MAIN DIVISION. _God is Love._ 1 JOHN 3:1
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God (1 John 3:1): I love that verse. Behold, what manner of love God has bestowed upon you, that you sh...
2 Timothy 3:12; Acts 3:12; Ecclesiastes 5:8; James 4:4; John 15:18;...
Brethren [α δ ε λ φ ο ι]. The only occurrence of this mode of address in the Epistle. Hate [μ ι σ ε ι]. Indicative mood, pointing to the fact as existing : if the world hate you, as it does....
CHILDREN OF GOD 1 John 3:1 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 who were c...
Marvel not if the world hate you — For the same cause....