Genesis 4:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Then the Lord said to Cain: Why are you angry? Why are you dejected?

Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you act rightly, you will be accepted; but if not, sin lies in wait at the door: its urge is for you, yet you can rule over it.

Job 5:2

Surely impatience kills the fool and indignation slays the simpleton.

Isaiah 1:18

Come now, let us set things right, says the Lord: Though your sins be like scarlet, they may become white as snow; Though they be red like crimson, they may become white as wool.

Jeremiah 2:31

You people of this generation, consider the word of the Lord: Have I become a wilderness to Israel, a land of gloom? Why then do my people say, “We have moved on, we will not come to you any more”?

Jeremiah 2:5

thus says the Lord: What fault did your ancestors find in me that they withdrew from me, Went after emptiness, and became empty themselves?

Jonah 4:4

But the Lord asked, “Are you right to be angry?”

Jonah 4:9

But God said to Jonah, “Do you have a right to be angry over the gourd plant?” Jonah answered, “I have a right to be angry—angry enough to die.”

Matthew 20:15

[Or] am I not free to do as I wish with my own money? Are you envious because I am generous?’