King James Version (KJV)
1 John 3:12
“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.”
Verse in context — 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.
11
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
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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.
13
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.
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