1 John 3:13
Good News Translation
So do not be surprised, my friends, if the people of the world hate you.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not be astonished, brothers and sisters, that the world hates you.

Contemporary English Version
My friends, don't be surprised if the people of this world hate you.

New American Bible
Do not be amazed, [then,] brothers, if the world hates you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you.

Marvel not.

Ecclesiastes 5:8 If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:

John 3:7 Wonder not that I said to thee: You must be born again.

Acts 3:12 But Peter seeing, made answer to the people: Ye men of Israel, why wonder you at this? Or why look you upon us, as if by our strength or power we had made this man to walk?

Revelation 17:7 And the angel said to me: Why dost thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman and of the beast which carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.

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Matthew 10:22 And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he that shall persevere unto the end, he shall be saved.

Matthew 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall put you to death: and you shall be hated by all nations for my name's sake.

Mark 13:13 And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake. But he that shall endure unto the end, he shall be saved.

Luke 6:22 Blessed shall you be when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

Luke 21:17 And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake.

John 7:7 The world cannot hate you: but me it hateth, because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil,

John 15:18,19 If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you. . . .

John 16:2,33 They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth a service to God. . . .

John 17:14 I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them: because they are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.

Romans 8:7 Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God. For it is not subject to the law of God: neither can it be.

2 Timothy 3:12 And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

James 4:4 Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world becometh an enemy of God.

Context
Love One Another
12Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and his brother's just. 13Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you. 14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.…
Cross References
Proverbs 29:27
The just abhor a wicked man: and the wicked loathe them that are in the right way. The son that keepeth the word, shall be free from destruction.

John 15:18
If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you.

John 17:14
I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them: because they are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.

1 John 3:12
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