1 John 3:12 - The Scriptures 1998

¹² not as Qayin who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his works were wicked but those of his brother were righteous.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² [And] not be like Cain who [took his nature and got his motivation] from the evil one and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his deeds (activities, works) were wicked and malicious and his brother's were righteous (virtuous).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

Common English Bible

¹² Don’t behave like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he kill him? He killed him because his own works were evil, but the works of his brother were righteous.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Do not be like Cain, who was of the evil one, and who killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked, but his brother's works were just.

1 John 3:12 Cross References

Genesis 4:25

And Aḏ

2 Samuel 13:22

And Aḇ

Psalm 37:12

The wrong plots against the righteous, And gnashes his teeth at him.

Psalm 38:20

And those who repay evil for good, They oppose me, because I follow what is good.

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruel and displeasure overwhelming, But who is able to stand before jealousy?

Proverbs 29:10

Bloodthirsty men hate the perfect, And seek the life of the straight.

Proverbs 29:27

An unrighteous man Is an abomination to the righteous, And he who is straight in the way Is an abomination to the wrong.

Matthew 13:19

“When anyone hears the word of the reign, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is that sown by the wayside.

Matthew 13:38

and the field is the world. And the good seed, these are the sons of the reign, but the darnel are the sons of the wicked one,

Matthew 23:35

so that on you should come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Heḇ

Matthew 27:23

And the governor said, “Indeed, what evil has He done?” And they were crying out all the more, saying, “Let Him be impaled!”

Matthew 5:37

“But let your word ‘Yea’ be ‘Yea,’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ And what goes beyond these is from the wicked one.

Luke 11:51

from the blood of Heḇ

John 10:32

יהושע  answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. Because of which of these works do you stone Me?”

John 8:40

“But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has spoken to you the truth which I heard from Elohim. Aḇ

John 8:41

“You do the works of your father.” Then they said to Him, “We were not born of whoring, we have one Father: Elohim.”

Acts 7:52

“Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who before announced the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,

1 Thessalonians 2:14

For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of Elohim which are in Yehuḏ

Hebrews 11:4

By belief, Heḇ

Hebrews 12:24

and to יהושע  the Mediatorof a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling which speaks better than the blood of Heḇ

1 Peter 4:4

in which they are surprised that you do not run with them in the same flood of loose behaviour, blaspheming,

1 John 3:8

The one doing sin is of the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of Elohim was manifested: to destroy the works of the devil.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! Because they have gone in the way of Qayin, and gave themselves to the delusion of Bilʽ

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the set-apart ones, and with the blood of the witnesses of יהושע. And having seen her, I marvelled – greatly marvelled!