1 John 3:12

Legacy Standard Bible

not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

Cross References

Genesis 4:25

Then Adam knew his wife again; and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, for she said, “God has set for me another seed in place of Abel, for Cain killed him.”

2 Samuel 13:22

But Absalom did not speak to Amnon either good or bad; for Absalom hated Amnon because he had violated his sister Tamar.

Psalm 37:12

¶The wicked schemes against the righteous And gnashes at him with his teeth.

Psalm 38:20

And those who repay evil for good, They accuse me, for I pursue what is good.

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruelty and anger is a flood, But who can stand before jealousy?

Proverbs 29:10

Men of bloodshed hate the blameless, But the upright seek the well-being of his soul.

Proverbs 29:27

An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous, And he who is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.

Matthew 13:19

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown beside the road.

Matthew 13:38

and the field is the world; and as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one;

Matthew 23:35

so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

Matthew 27:23

And he said, “Why, what evil did He do?” But they were crying out all the more, saying, “Let Him be crucified!”

Matthew 5:37

But let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no’; anything beyond these is of the evil one.

Luke 11:51

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the house of God; yes, I tell you, it shall be charged against this generation.’

John 10:32

Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?”

John 8:40

But now you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. This Abraham did not do.

John 8:41

You are doing the deeds of your father.” They said to Him, “We were not born of sexual immorality; we have one Father: God.”

Acts 7:52

And which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become;

1 Thessalonians 2:14

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you also suffered the same things at the hands of your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews,

Hebrews 11:4

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he was approved as being righteous—God approving his gifts—and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.

Hebrews 12:24

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.

1 Peter 4:4

In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, maligning you,

1 John 3:8

The one who does sin is of the devil, because the devil sins from the beginning. The Son of God was manifested for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have poured themselves into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

Revelation 17:6

Then I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered greatly.