World English Bible

1 John 3:13

“Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.”

Verse in context — 1 John 3

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

Assurance of salvation and the call to love one another.