Genesis 4:14

New Century Version

Today you have forced me to stop working the ground, and now I must hide from you. I must wander around on the earth, and anyone who meets me can kill me.”

Cross References

Genesis 3:24

After God forced humans out of the garden, he placed angels and a sword of fire that flashed around in every direction on its eastern border. This kept people from getting to the tree of life.

Genesis 4:13

Then Cain said to the Lord, “This punishment is more than I can stand!

2 Samuel 14:7

Now all the family group is against me. They said to me, ‘Bring the son who killed his brother so we may kill him for killing his brother. That way we will also get rid of the one who would receive what belonged to his father.’ My son is like the last spark of a fire. He is all I have left. If they kill him, my husband’s name and property will be gone from the earth.”

Psalm 109:10

Make his children wander around, begging for food. Let them be forced out of the ruins in which they live.

Psalm 109:12

Let no one show him love or have mercy on his orphaned children.

Psalm 143:7

Lord, answer me quickly, because I am getting weak. Don’t turn away from me, or I will be like those who are dead.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked are ruined by their own evil, but those who do right are protected even in death.

Proverbs 28:1

Evil people run even though no one is chasing them, but good people are as brave as a lion.

Isaiah 8:22

They will look around them at their land and see only trouble, darkness, and awful gloom. And they will be forced into the darkness.

Jeremiah 52:3

All this happened in Jerusalem and Judah because the Lord was angry with them. Finally, he threw them out of his presence. Zedekiah turned against the king of Babylon.

Hosea 13:3

So those people will be like the morning mist; they will disappear like the morning dew. They will be like chaff blown from the threshing floor, like smoke going out a window.

Leviticus 26:17

I will be against you, and your enemies will defeat you. These people who hate you will rule over you, and you will run away even when no one is chasing you.

Leviticus 26:36

“ ‘Those of you who are left alive will lose their courage in the land of their enemies. They will be frightened by the sound of a leaf being blown by the wind. They will run as if someone were chasing them with a sword, and they will fall even when no one is chasing them.

Numbers 35:19

A relative of the dead person must put the murderer to death; when they meet, the relative must kill the murderer.

Numbers 35:21

Or a person might hit someone with his hand and cause death. If it were done from hate, the person is a murderer and must be put to death. A relative of the dead person must kill the murderer when they meet.

Numbers 35:27

If a relative of the dead person finds the killer outside the city, the relative may kill that person and not be guilty of murder.

Matthew 25:41

“Then the King will say to those on his left, ‘Go away from me. You will be punished. Go into the fire that burns forever that was prepared for the devil and his angels.

Matthew 25:46

“These people will go off to be punished forever, but the good people will go to live forever.”

Deuteronomy 28:64

Then the Lord will scatter you among the nations—from one end of the earth to the other. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known.

Deuteronomy 28:65

You will have no rest among those nations and no place that is yours. The Lord will make your mind worried, your sight weak, and your soul sad.

2 Thessalonians 1:9

Those people will be punished with a destruction that continues forever. They will be kept away from the Lord and from his great power.