Cain

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• 1JN 3:11–18, engwebp

  ¹¹For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another—

  ¹²unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

  ¹³Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

  ¹⁴We 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.

  ¹⁵Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

  ¹⁶By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

  ¹⁷But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

  ¹⁸My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

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• GEN 4:1–2, engwebp

  ¹The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with the LORD’s help.”

  ²Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

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• GEN 4:3–8, engwebp

  ³As time passed, Cain brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit of the ground.

  ⁴Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. The LORD respected Abel and his offering,

  ⁵but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

  ⁶The LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

  ⁷If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

  ⁸Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

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• GEN 4:9–16, engwebp

  ⁹The LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

  ¹⁰The LORD said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

  ¹¹Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

  ¹²From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

  ¹³Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

  ¹⁴Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

  ¹⁵The LORD said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” The LORD appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.

  ¹⁶Cain left the LORD’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

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• GEN 4:17, engwebp

  ¹⁷Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

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• HEB 11:4–7, engwebp

  ⁴By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

  ⁵By faith Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

  ⁶Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

  ⁷By faith Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

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• JUD 1:11–13, engwebp

  ¹¹Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

  ¹²These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

  ¹³wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

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