The First Epistle General of John
Chapter 3:10-15
Geneva Bible Translation (Ed. 1599)
10 In this are the children of God known, 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, (a)
12 Not as Cain which was of that wicked one, and slew his brother: and wherefore slew he him? because his own works were evil, and his brother’s good.
13 Marvel not my brethren, though this world hate you.
14 We know that we are translated from death unto life, because we love the brethren: he that loveth not his brother, abideth in death. (b)
15 Whosoever hateth his brother, is a manslayer: and ye know that no manslayer hath eternal life abiding in him. (c)
(a) Read John 13:34, 15:12
(b) Read 1 John 2:10
(c) Read Matthew 5:21-22
The history of the world is the story of hatred, right back to the archetypal conflict between Cain and Abel. John traces Cain’s hatred to the radical difference of his motivations from those of Abel a difference that will always exist between the world and the people of God. When the fellowship of believers is free from animosity, as John expects it will be, we know that we “have passed out of death into life”. But if such animosity invades the fellowship, it does so only by rejection of “the message that you have heard from the beginning”
Source - Reformation Study Bible
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