Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

Wesley's Notes

3:13 Marvel not if the world hate you - For the same cause.

Scofield Reference Notes

Margin world

kosmos = world-system. 1Jn 4:3-5 Jn 7:7. See Scofield Note: "Rev 13:8".

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

13. Marvel not-The marvel would be if the world loved you.

the world-of whom Cain is the representative (1Jo 3:12).

hate you-as Cain hated even his own brother, and that to the extent of murdering him. The world feels its bad works tacitly reproved by your good works.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:11-15 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 who rightly know the heart of man, can wonder at the contempt and enmity of ungodly people against the children of God. We know that we are passed from death to life: we may know it by the evidences of our faith in Christ, of which love to our brethren is one. It is not zeal for a party in the common religion, or affection for those who are of the same name and sentiments with ourselves. The life of grace in the heart of a regenerate person, is the beginning and first principle of a life of glory, whereof they must be destitute who hate their brother in their hearts.