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Genesis 4:4-15
Abel also brought a gift— the best portions of the firstborn lambs from his flock. The Lord accepted Abel and his gift,but he did not accept Cain and his gift. This made Cain very angry, and he looked dejected.“ Why are you so angry?” the Lord asked Cain.“ Why do you look so dejected?You will be accepted if you do what is right. But if you refuse to do what is right, then watch out! Sin is crouching at the door, eager to control you. But you must subdue it and be its master.”One day Cain suggested to his brother,“ Let’s go out into the fields.” And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother, Abel, and killed him.Afterward the Lord asked Cain,“ Where is your brother? Where is Abel?”“ I don’t know,” Cain responded.“ Am I my brother’s guardian?”But the Lord said,“ What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground!Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has swallowed your brother’s blood.No longer will the ground yield good crops for you, no matter how hard you work! From now on you will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”Cain replied to the Lord,“ My punishment is too great for me to bear!You have banished me from the land and from your presence; you have made me a homeless wanderer. Anyone who finds me will kill me!”The Lord replied,“ No, for I will give a sevenfold punishment to anyone who kills you.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain to warn anyone who might try to kill him.
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Jude 1:11
What sorrow awaits them! For they follow in the footsteps of Cain, who killed his brother. Like Balaam, they deceive people for money. And like Korah, they perish in their rebellion.
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Proverbs 29:27
The righteous despise the unjust; the wicked despise the godly.
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Luke 11:51
from the murder of Abel to the murder of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, it will certainly be charged against this generation.
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Genesis 4:25
Adam had sexual relations with his wife again, and she gave birth to another son. She named him Seth, for she said,“ God has granted me another son in place of Abel, whom Cain killed.”
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Acts 7:52
Name one prophet your ancestors didn’t persecute! They even killed the ones who predicted the coming of the Righteous One— the Messiah whom you betrayed and murdered.
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Matthew 13:38
The field is the world, and the good seed represents the people of the Kingdom. The weeds are the people who belong to the evil one.
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Proverbs 29:10
The bloodthirsty hate blameless people, but the upright seek to help them.
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Hebrews 12:24
You have come to Jesus, the one who mediates the new covenant between God and people, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks of forgiveness instead of crying out for vengeance like the blood of Abel.
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1 Samuel 19 4-1 Samuel 19 5
The next morning Jonathan spoke with his father about David, saying many good things about him.“ The king must not sin against his servant David,” Jonathan said.“ He’s never done anything to harm you. He has always helped you in any way he could.Have you forgotten about the time he risked his life to kill the Philistine giant and how the Lord brought a great victory to all Israel as a result? You were certainly happy about it then. Why should you murder an innocent man like David? There is no reason for it at all!”
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Matthew 23:35
As a result, you will be held responsible for the murder of all godly people of all time— from the murder of righteous Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you killed in the Temple between the sanctuary and the altar.
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1 Samuel 18 14-1 Samuel 18 15
David continued to succeed in everything he did, for the Lord was with him.When Saul recognized this, he became even more afraid of him.
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1 Samuel 22 14-1 Samuel 22 16
“ But sir,” Ahimelech replied,“ is anyone among all your servants as faithful as David, your son in law? Why, he is the captain of your bodyguard and a highly honored member of your household!This was certainly not the first time I had consulted God for him! May the king not accuse me and my family in this matter, for I knew nothing at all of any plot against you.”“ You will surely die, Ahimelech, along with your entire family!” the king shouted.
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1 Peter 4 4
Of course, your former friends are surprised when you no longer plunge into the flood of wild and destructive things they do. So they slander you.
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1 John 3 8
But when people keep on sinning, it shows that they belong to the devil, who has been sinning since the beginning. But the Son of God came to destroy the works of the devil.
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1 Thessalonians 2 14
And then, dear brothers and sisters, you suffered persecution from your own countrymen. In this way, you imitated the believers in God’s churches in Judea who, because of their belief in Christ Jesus, suffered from their own people, the Jews.